Rain Drops On Bleeding Hearts

One of our favorite Spring flowers that you plant in the shade. I always look forward to this beautiful flower in the Spring in our front flower bed... more

by Robert Bales

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Rain Drops On Bleeding Hearts

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Robert Bales

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One of our favorite Spring flowers that you plant in the shade. I always look forward to this beautiful flower in the Spring in our front flower bed and this morning found a few raindrops on it.

Lamprocapnos spectabilis (bleeding heart) is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae, native to Siberia, northern China, Korea and Japan. It is the sole species in the monotypic genus Lamprocapnos, but is still widely referenced in the UK under its old name Dicentra spectabilis (now listed as a synonym). It is valued in gardens and in floristry for its heart-shaped pink and white flowers, borne in spring.
Bleeding heart has attractive mounded foliage with arching stems of delicate, heart-shaped flowers in spring. It thrives in moist woodland gardens along with ferns and other shade-lovers.
Bleeding heart grows best in cool, moist conditions. Flower colors include yellow, pink, red, and white. It blooms in spring and may rebloom sporadically throughout the summer in cool areas. Height ranges from 6 inches to 2 feet, depending on variety.
Bleeding hearts, the poetically named perennials, have heart-shaped pendant pink or white flowers with spurs at the base and fern like attractive foliage. Dicentra spectabilis is the showiest, but its flowers finish in spring and its foliage disappears in midsummer. Other species continue to bloom all summer. Bleeding hearts need open or partial shade with an evenly moist, slightly acidic soil. Plenty of peat moss must be used when planting. Pine needles or pine bark are good for mulching. By division in early spring or from seed; roots are fleshy and sold by the number of eyes present on plant starts. Transplant self-sown plants.

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May 17th, 2023