Sunday Snapshot -- Weedy Scenery

This year, early season work in the garden was geared toward manicuring the garden preparing for our daughter's wedding.  Because it is in an out of the way spot, and not visible to either the ceremony or reception sites, the Rose Field was not tended at all.  Last year's weed starts have become full-grown specimens, and the whole garden has taken on an abandoned, secret garden sort of look.  In May, it was possible to get down most of the rows of this garden ... now that summer is here and the weeds are reaching their mature sizes, there are paths that are completely impassable.

The smudge on my lens adds a dreamy, almost-romantic quality to this photo.

If you didn't already know that this was supposed to be a rose garden, with roses planted in neat rows divided by gravel paths, you would almost think that it was a wild cottage garden full of native plants.  Visitors this year have been most intrigued by the mayhem in this garden.  One woman saw it and exclaimed, "I can do this!" ... then she laughed and dove in to see what she could discover.

I have a plan to reclaim this, but it's going to have to happen a little at a time.  Thank goodness we have friends who are willing to lend a hand.