What's Blooming
Mary Sue Ittner (Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:26:04 PST)

Pam,

I'm not familiar with two of these Freesias. Also John Manning told
me when we were in South Africa that when the new work on this genus
comes out F. leichtlinii is going to be included in Freesia alba.
I've always found the two that I've grown difficult to tell apart so
that made sense to me.

I ones I are wondering about are the two you listed under Freesia
leichtlinii. Do you mean Ferraria divaricata? There is a Lapeirousia
divaricata (which in the past was an erroneous name used in seed
exchanges for a white Freesia laxa as the true L. divaricata was a
different plant), but with the ssp. I'm thinking you meant Ferraria
even though you listed Ferraria species in another place in your
email. What is F. falcata? There is a Freesia fucata, is that what
you meant? Also a Hesperantha falcata, a Cyrtanthus falcata

It sounds like your garden must be quite wonderful at the moment.

Mary Sue