{"id":6811,"date":"2020-04-09T04:07:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T04:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2020-04-10T03:05:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T03:05:36","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-84-freesia-laxa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/09\/plant-a-day-2020-day-84-freesia-laxa\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 84) Freesia laxa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About ten years ago, at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show (now Festival), I purchased a pot of Freesia laxa from a vendor I don\u2019t remember. I was able to keep the plants alive and blooming for a couple of years. , Eventually, they died out in that pot. But, like a frisky little phoenix, they have risen from myriad other pots in the greenhouse and beyond. It turns out their beautiful seeds jump happily around and sprout and bloom and then seed and die out and so on\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plants themselves are fine\u2013very iris-y and somewhat floppy in the greenhouse without full sun. The flowers are bright and lovely\u2013a rather noisy scarlet red with some darker markings inside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After having success the first year, I ordered seeds for the clone \u201cJoan Evans\u201d and grew them to flowering size. Joan Evans was a delicate beauty\u2013gorgeous white flowers with dark markings, but weak growth and none of the rampant reproduction of the straight species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n