If you don’t equate winter with the fragrance of vanilla mixed with gumdrops and just a touch of cinnamon, then you’ve never met a freesia. If elegantly arching stems laden with blossom after graceful blossom do not come to mind when Valentine’s Day rolls around, then you need to stop in at a florist. Freesias are the perks of winter. Just when you were resigned to a season of snoozing by the fire, sipping hot chocolate, and wistfully leafing through seed catalogs, freesias show up in your supermarket. (Hint: keep an eye peeled in the florist section of your grocery store because freesias have newly hit the mainstream.) Quite suddenly, winter is no longer a time when you turn off your senses. From now on, as soon as the holidays wind down, think freesias.
