Canadian Gardening: Freesia 'Figaro Red', 1 by Ironwood

Ironwood wrote:
I have planted freesia many times without luck untill one fall a few years ago when I was digging the glads I noticed the freesia had just started to grow so I dug them along with a little soil and placed them in a planter and brought them inside where they continued to grow. They did not bloom the first year in the pot so stopped watering them as the foliage died back. I basicly just forgot about them as they were in the basement where I overwinter a few low maintenance plants. The following winter (late fall) I noitced some green sprouts and started watering them and a couple bloomed that winter and they have bloomed every winter for the last three years, still in the same pot.

I have noitced more than once when planted in the garden in spring that they just start to grow in the fall and have come to the conclusion they are cycled for the southern hemisphere, doesn't seem to make sense but I don't know any other way to explain it.

Anyhow it is nice to have some color in the dead of winter. This picture was taken on Feb 27 and they finished blooming about 2 weeks ago.

Ken