Why is it that when I walk in my garden I feel proud and pleased with it and then, as soon as I photograph it, it looks totally hideous? Is it because a photo only shows a sliver and not the whole? For whatever reason, since it was another foul Manawatu weather day today (the type that flattens my seedlings as soon as they're transplanted) I decided that I'd archive a few 'before' photos in the hope that in summer I'll have a lovely lush, well planned garden to showcase. Mostly what I saw in the images was chaos and wilderness - not exactly aesthetically pleasing - but then I guess you reap what you sow, *cringe at cheesy cliche* , as I abhor rows and formality in my garden and I tend to bung veggies in any old place where there's room. Little surprise then that my informal companion planting is creating a tangled mess! 
The rose garden is the only strip of garden to get full sun so the roses now have to share their warm bed with rainbow beet, parsley (companion plant for the roses apparently), perpetual spinach, asparagus peas and cerinthe major to attract the bees.
It looked prettier before I started harvesting the rainbow beet and perpetual spinach!
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