Water Gardening: Framing the water garden (What do you plant outside yours?), 1 by soivos

soivos wrote:
Here is a second 'After' picture so you can better see what we need to work on.
The footbridge runs East to West, with the end near the filter being on the East, and the end in the foreground being the West.

I was thinking of planting some short, wide evergreen against the fence to screen the filter from neighbors, but hopefully prevent it from dropping leaves, etc. into the filter/pond (note nearby cedars and box that will probably stay where they are unless the chainsaw gets going).

Thanks for your suggestions and advice!

Teresa