"Commercial" Freesias
Jane McGary (Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:59:06 PDT)

I have to disagree about the usefulness of keeping commercial freesia
corms after they have flowered once. I have a lot of them going into
the third year now, from a couple of packets bought at a garden
center. I didn't "bake" them deliberately but they sat around in
their pots after going dormant the first year and surprised me by
returning to flower a second year, so this summer I planted them on
into a big planter in the bulb house, and they are emerging in
apparent good health. They increase rapidly.

One curious thing I noticed when I grew commercial freesias at my old
place, in the bulb frames was that after a few years the only color
surviving was yellow. I assumed that this clone was more cold-hardy
than the others.

These are all single, not double, freesias, as the singles have
better fragrance so are more useful for cutting.

Jane McGary
Portland, Oregon, USA

At 07:04 AM 10/28/2013, you wrote: