new flowers

I am enjoying seeing the flowers blooming right now.  The white ixias (with a slight tinge of green have replaced the creamy ixias and they stand in tall spikes alongside the baby blue bearded iris.  Here's a close up picture.

The roses are showing their beauty and a pity that they suffer so much when the rain descends.  The rain has been downpours rather than showers and the roses have little defence.  I enjoy them when they are in bud, waiting to unfurl.  From early September the roses have opened up in different parts of the garden, sometimes pushing their way through the leaves of spent flowering bulbs.  My garden is over planted as this picture will show you.  The pink (Lorraine Lee) and yellow roses are amongst the earliest to appear. I may have to clear the lower planting -hydrangeas and parsley, to give the roses room to breathe.