Fabulousfreesia is a group of all Dutch freesia growers affiliated with Royal FloraHolland. All these growers specialize in cultivating top-quality freesias, naturally with a wonderful fragrance!
The freesia is a very vibrant flower, making it a true experience in a vase. Each bud on the long comb slowly opens one by one, adding more color and fragrance to your vase every day with a bouquet of freesias.
The freesia range is incredibly wide; there are six main colors: pink, white, yellow, red, orange, and blue. Of these six, you also have pastel shades like light pink and peach! After choosing your favorite color, you can also choose between single or double-flowered freesias. You can clearly see the difference in the photos below!
Single-flowered Freesia
Double-flowered Freesia
The freesia is one of the most labor-intensive crops, requiring a great deal of manual labor and careful thought. Take a look below to learn more about freesia cultivation!
It all starts with steaming the soil, if the soil you want to grow on is heated to 60 degrees for 60 minutes, up to 60 cm deep in the soil, you are assured that all viruses, fungi, bacteria
and all the weeds are dead.
Then we can start planting the tubers in the clean soil, because freesias grow from a tuber! The soil temperature is very important in this growing process! The average
soil temperature during cultivation is 16.5 degrees.
Once the tubers have been planted and the buds have formed, the plant can start growing. During the winter months, the Freesia needs LED lighting to produce beautiful, heavy branches. The energy
Use during Freesia cultivation is low!
The freesia grows from a branch; this is also called the "main branch." Side branches, also called "hooks," grow from the sides of this main branch. The main branch is the first, most beautiful, largest , and heaviest freesia to be cut from the plant. This must be carefully cut from the plant so that the side branches growing below are not lost and can continue to grow until these hooks also reach maturity and are ready for harvest. Therefore, a great deal of manual work is involved in harvesting the freesia. With every branch harvested, we pay attention to the side branches that will then grow into beautiful freesias.
When all the Freesias from the crop have been harvested, the foliage dies
from the freesia. This foliage is also sustainably reused; some growers use it to make hay bales for cattle feed, and one grower is even making A4 paper for writing on!