I absolutely love this cultivar. It has been in my garden for about 3-4 years, and I must say that the I cannot agree with the comments ...Read Moreothers make about. For me, the "hearts" stay red for quite a while before fading, and when they fade they don't look quite like the normal pink bleeding heart (which I also grow along with the white and the native D. eximia cultivar 'Dolly Sods' - which is also great). For me, in my south and east facing hillside Hudson Valley garden that gets no supplemental irrigation aside of what nature provides, 'Valentine' is a beautiful addition to the shade garden. It is dramatically redder than normal bleeding hear, and the foliage is very pleasingly darker. It has also sown itself about (coming true) in the bed where it is planted, which I do not mind.
As for my other bleeding hearts, the native 'Dolly Sods' does well and seeds about (though the parent plants are not necessarily long lived, but I do like that this cultivar from West Virginia survives and blooms heavily through our increasingly normal summer dry spells and massive hot humidity). The white D. spectabilis bleeding heart is rather anemic here, but the common pink variety is good and also seeds about. I also have some yellow vining bleeding hearts that have come back year after year and Adlumia.
In any case, I like this family of plants along with corydalis, and I am pleased with the performance of the 'Valentine' cultivar.
When it is not fully open, the heart-shaped flower is spectacular. It does fade with further development. The plant is less robust than...Read More my other bleeding hearts. Despite the drawbacks, the flower is so marvelous in the early stages that I rate it "positive"
Valentine is a wonderful Bleeding Heart because it has a very intensive color and looks absolutly impressiv in the garden. Here in my gar...Read Moreden in Austria, it is not so fast growing than the usual ones
This cultivar is sold for the novelty value of the flower color. It's darker than the species, but not really red. I find it's a little m...Read Moreuddy, and fades in a few days to a pink like the species.
I planted 3 two years ago. None are now alive, though I'm not sure if they weren't outcompeted by their neighbors.
Discovered as a chance seedling by Phyllis and Lyle Sarrazin of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
I absolutely love this cultivar. It has been in my garden for about 3-4 years, and I must say that the I cannot agree with the comments ...Read More
When it is not fully open, the heart-shaped flower is spectacular. It does fade with further development. The plant is less robust than...Read More
Valentine is a wonderful Bleeding Heart because it has a very intensive color and looks absolutly impressiv in the garden. Here in my gar...Read More
This cultivar is sold for the novelty value of the flower color. It's darker than the species, but not really red. I find it's a little m...Read More