Jane,
I have not done any research on the Freesia. As much as I tell myself not to buy things before I know something about them, I end up doing it anyhow. On the package they do show them growing in a pot, but I was planning on putting them directly in the garden and hoping they would multiply. Darn, just read they will not survive in regions colder than zone 9. Well, I am pretty close, so maybe with a little mulch over them they may still make it.