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I sooo love this sweet old fashioned flower...we have some wild ones that bloom in the sand dunes down at the beach that no-one else seems to know about but moi...they are hidden but prolific...and soo devinely heavenly...I pick them and pick them and take them to old peoples homes and give them away...
We have our own variety which is called Burtonii...cream with yellow throats....and oh so much more fragrant than the big hybrid ones...and you cannot buy this one commercially anymore but if your granny planted some there they will be...
I think I will dig some corms up after they have flowered as theres alot there and I wouldnt mind having my own little pot of them....for next spring...my daughter was going to be called Freesia but dammit her faher is abit straight....oh well...Honey Rose was close enough,tho she asks me to call her Freesia at times...;0)
We have our own variety which is called Burtonii...cream with yellow throats....and oh so much more fragrant than the big hybrid ones...and you cannot buy this one commercially anymore but if your granny planted some there they will be...
I think I will dig some corms up after they have flowered as theres alot there and I wouldnt mind having my own little pot of them....for next spring...my daughter was going to be called Freesia but dammit her faher is abit straight....oh well...Honey Rose was close enough,tho she asks me to call her Freesia at times...;0)
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Re: ~freesias freesias freesias everywhere~here~
Fri, August 24, 2007 - 8:56 AMI love freesias. I didn't realize they were old fashioned! But then, I am a little old lady hidden in a (now) middle aged body *lol*
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Re: ~freesias freesias freesias everywhere~here~
Fri, August 24, 2007 - 1:51 PMI would have said be careful about disturbing natural areas, but it seems as if freesia may be an introduced and invasive species in NZ like it is in California...so harvest away!
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Re: ~freesias freesias freesias everywhere~here~
Fri, August 24, 2007 - 8:21 PMI havent found freesias to be invasive here...they have most likely self sown over a long time and then they seem to congregate in one area on the dunes...unlike wild ginger which is on the noxious weed list tho it has a heavenly smell... -
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Re: ~freesias freesias freesias everywhere~here~
Sat, August 25, 2007 - 1:05 PMDoes anyone know where freesia is native too? I have fond memories of it from my childhood in Australia but I have no idea if it's native (and it doesn't "look" Australian and I don't remember seeing it in the bush so I kind of doubt it is). Nothing transports me back to my childhood like the smell of the Australian bush, and the smell of geranium oil which my gran used to use in her potpourri...well, and frangipanis and gardenias. While I love the smell of a pine forest, I really do miss those smells :) -
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Re: ~freesias freesias freesias everywhere~here~
Sat, August 25, 2007 - 2:40 PMtis South African...like many...
Amazing is'nt is those childhood smells...I always remember the kanuka trees have a sweet smell to them when its summer and their bark is releasing....that always reminds me of The Bay of Islands up north where we had a holiday home... -
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Re: ~freesias freesias freesias everywhere~here~
Sat, August 25, 2007 - 4:48 PMI thought it might be Africa, thanks gliS :-) The two things I noticed very strongly when I was a kid was how different places smelled really different and how the light and colors are entirely different in different places. And tasted different. Um, apparently I've *always* been a sensualist! *lol*
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