Freesia Mix

The bulbs were beautiful and had babies attached…a lot of babies. Free bulbs! I want to say that I had 100% growth…but I didn't count. I will say that I had a ton of babies…again, not very scientific. I got beautiful colors and they will come back year after year. I have been buying several hundred every year and I am never disappointed!

These bulbs I tried with a little skepticism about arrival time which turned out to be justified, since here in southwestern California they naturalize very well - there is no way that this bulb should ship in spring to the Pacific Southwest, because it normally emerges late August into October and grows thru the fall - bloom begins in February and is mostly over by the end of March, tho some potted ones in cool spots may linger into the first week of April. Planted in March, none flowered the first year, and only about half sprouted at all. The following August, about half came up - don't know if it was the ones the sprouted or if some just waited. They bloomed and began to multiply by both new bulbs and seeding the second spring. The seedlings are mostly if not entirely yellow, but reds, whites, lavenders, purples and pinks are all spreading by bulb now. The company should consider serving the West Coast by shipping freesias, as well as daffs and Dutch irises, during late August and early September - I never know how any will really be given that their ship times are not correct for this region.