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Freesia question
My wife planted in large pots last autumn a load of Freesia bulbs. this year
we have had a fantastic display,cut and taken indoors for vases. What is the procedure to get the same show next year? do I leave them in the pots and over winter them in the greenhouse or leave them out. Any advise please will be gratefully accepted. Mike |
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Freesia question
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:29:59 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:
Years ago I used to keep my freesias going year after year, IIRC by letting the pots dry out in the greenhouse (frost free) in autumn, then re-potting all the bulbs and offsets in fresh compost next year to get them growing again. The numbers increased steadily, BUT over two or three years, all the reds, purples etc died out, and all I had left were yellows. We were given a bunch of freesias a few months ago, but they had absolutely no scent. Most disappointing. Is this the result of intensive breeding to get earlier/bigger/whatever flowers? We keep ours going (winter flower crop) by drying them off in the spring after flowering and letting them get thoroughly cooked in the greenhouse 'til about now. We'll sort them out this week or next and pot all the flowering sized corms 5 to a 5inch pot and put them outside 'til frost threatens. Doing that, we seem to have lost most of the yellows which seem to be the most fragrant. We keep growing a few from seed and they give us an autumn crop of flowers in their first year. Dunno how the commercial growers get those huge flowers with 6mm thick stems, I prefer my thin wiry bent stems - they look much nicer in a vase. Well that's my excuse anyway and I'm sticking to it. Rod Weed my email address to reply. http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html |
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Freesia question
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:52:17 GMT, Mike Fitzpatrick wrote:
My wife planted in large pots last autumn a load of Freesia bulbs. this year we have had a fantastic display,cut and taken indoors for vases. What is the procedure to get the same show next year? do I leave them in the pots and over winter them in the greenhouse or leave them out. Any advise please will be gratefully accepted. An elderly gentleman, a gardener all his working life, now long dead, told me years ago to grow new freesias from seed every year. He overwintered his in a sheltered coldframe that he covered with matting during spells of sub-freezing weather. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
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