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I'm from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - Zone 5.
I have clay soil.
I love Old-fashioned bleeding heart (formerly calle...Read More
Lamprocapnos spectabilis is for shure a favorite plant in my spring garden. It blooms for three month here in Austria
This is one of my favorite plants for a shady spot. Even after the flowers are finished, I think the plant's form and foliage are still ...Read More
I received a specimen of Dicentra in a plant swap from a young mother whose colony of bleeding hearts was rampantly spreading. It had no...Read More
A fantastic perennial for deciduous shade in the north. Generally goes dormant when the weather gets hot, though in moist shade in the no...Read More
I absolutely love this plant! The only problem I have is planting them from bulb form. The fleshy roots tend to be very brittle and I fin...Read More
Very successful plants here! I have a white, a pink & a red! All do well, they are in mostly shade with some light morning sun. The pink ...Read More
does amazingly well on the northeast side of my house in Kansas. My dicentra is about 2 ft. in diameter and blooms 2x a year, spring then...Read More
We have one in almost complete shade on a slope surrounded by pachysandra and do nothing for it. It has flourished with our benign negle...Read More
My favorite shade plant, Bleeding Hearts are an elegant "must-have" for the northern gardener.
My mum has two enormous Bl...Read More
It took us a while to find just the right spot for our bleeding heart - a cutting from friends in Boca Raton. Once we planted two specim...Read More
All agree this is a spectacular plant, but some have problems growing it. I have had good luck in the Pacific Northwest, and allow our n...Read More
I ordered 2 from SpringHillNursery.com and planted them next to each other in a shady area (zone 7b). One came up nicely and the other, n...Read More
My trick to keeping dicentra spectabilis looking decent year-round (at least in northern climates) is to cut it back hard after it blooms...Read More
I love bleeding hearts. They add color to my shady spots. I have 3 of these...2 pink and 1 white. The one pink I've had for 3 years an...Read More
A beautiful plant, but doesn' t really flourish in the mild winters of Athens (i think it needs cold frosty winters like Peonies).
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I bought a 2 gallon pot this spring, and the plant grew so well in my partially shady, zone 5 location that I have had to cut it back twi...Read More
I too have tried this beautiful plants in my garden multiple times. I finally resolved, the summer heat is too much for these beauties.
I would say this plant is difficult for a beginner - many may die because of bad locations or not watering it regularly but a few will s...Read More
I planted two of these wonderful plants in my front shade garden - one in 2006 and one in 2007. They are both thriving and have bloomed w...Read More
Well to start out with,I have three of these plants 1- Pink & 2- white ones. I've had them for 6 yrs and all are doing well.The 2 in the ...Read More
This is the 3rd year for this plant and each prior year, I thought it died. However, each spring it comes back bigger and stronger. No ...Read More
Plated in shady area, though that they weren't doing well because of the conditions and just replanted in my backyard. Didn't think that ...Read More
I first saw this plant at a friends house and fell in love with it, that was in zone 7A.
I purchased some for my zone 7A for my fr...Read More
I bought a huge bare root bleeding heart from easytogrowbulbs.com and I planted it about a month ago. Now it is blooming already! It is ...Read More
I bought 2 of bleeding heart vines last spring. Kept them in pots in a partial-shaded area and both did very well with growth but they d...Read More
Its a lovely flower but the foliage goes dormant in summer, here in northern CT by mid june- its completely died down to the ground.
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I just bought this plant, a dormant root, and placed it in my new shade garden underneath a large elm. That was in August - I know that i...Read More
In Augusta, Georgia, I have tried with three plants. One is barely surviving, no blooms. I think it doesn't take heat well -- certainly...Read More
It is early July in southern California and my lovely plant has been sleeping since May. I surely do hope that it is a sleeping beauty a...Read More
When I was a little girl the house up the street from us had a bleeding heart plant and I thought it was the most beautiful thing in the ...Read More
Lightning bug in Rockford, MN
I bought one of each color three years ago and they are still the same size and they've onl...Read More
My dicentras are as happy as clams at high tide, despite the non-acidic, nitrogen-poor soil and their continued exposure to the herbicide...Read More
I have a sunless wet corner where the house and the addition meet. I picked up this plant as an afterthought because they said it would g...Read More
Well, the same, everybody has to add: Not too much shade, not too much sun, a little bit of a diva.... When established, keep weeds or ot...Read More
Die back to the ground in the summer heat. Sprouted back, blooms first, no foliage whatsoever at the end of winter/early spring, the foli...Read More
Grows well in Newfoundland, Canada,
I love it! I've been growing Bleeding Heart (Pink variety) for many years. I've been growing the White one for several years. I let th...Read More
This is a lovely, interesting plant. As one other person noted, I too have had it die back completely in summer, especially during droug...Read More
My 92 year old neighbor just had her yard landscaped. 2 bleeding hearts were installed and have begun to look peakish and yellow. I hea...Read More
I have about 30 of these plants in my yard. I have noticed the white variety stands up to summer heat a lot better than the old fashione...Read More
I have a bleeding heart planted in a shady garden right under a tree. It puts on a spectacular show in the spring and is a sight for sor...Read More
Planted this little beauty in a shady spot in my backyard last year. It grew beautifully and blossomed then something chewed through the...Read More
This puts on a big, dramatic show from April to June here and it is amazing and beautiful, BUT it spreads like crazy and after it is done...Read More
I remember my grandmother growing this plant in her
Spokane, WA garden, she even potted them and grew them as a house plant in a s...Read More
Success on my seventh attempt to grow this plant! I grow them in memory of my grandmother, who could always make things grow just by look...Read More
This plant was one of the first perrenial that I planted next to my bench when I moved to my home 11 years ago. It is absolutely stunnin...Read More
This is a beautiful plant in May...but looks really ratty in August. That hasn't stopped me from keeping them because they are one of th...Read More
I have found that this plant grows in my area (southern Indiana) much better if it has more shade then sun. I planted it once in part sha...Read More
I transplanted 2 small, spindly bleeding hearts from a friend's shady back yard here in Worcester, MA, where they were growing more or le...Read More
I bought one last spring at a small store, and brought it home and planted in a shady spot on my bank in the shade, behind a heartshaped ...Read More
I live in New York City and have a very small garden in the back of the building. In the shady nooks of my garden where nothing else has...Read More
Purchased 2 plants last spring and planted in my semi-shade garden. Lost both plants and do not know what the problem was, not a lot of ...Read More
This is my absolute favorite spring bloomer. Mine is planted on the north side of a garage so it gets enough water running off the roof t...Read More
The may be the easiest perrenial I've ever grown. I planted two cuttings in an Azalea bed, and I haven't done anything else except water ...Read More
I love bleeding hearts. The flowers look more like a little girl's charm necklace than a real, living plant. It is just so fascinating....Read More
I love this plant, but have tried 3 different plants in 3 separate locations and can't grow it. A lot of plants are listed that they will...Read More
Very impressive while it's with you- as one other poster said they can get to be about 4 feet across- but they do leave an awful hole in ...Read More
I would recommend spacing them farther than is listed. Once established, these can have a lateral spread of 4' or more, and mine are crow...Read More
In my area, this plant grows well in shade and moist soil.
After having this plant die back last year, we thought for sure that it wouldn't come back this year. Well, lo and behold, it came back ...Read More
I planted one in February, did quite well, quite large, can't wait for next early spring. Another just came up last month, waiting to see...Read More
I have two bleeding hearts growing on the south side of my house, under the shade of a big pine tree. I bought them 2 years ago from a lo...Read More
San Antonio, TX
I have attempted to grow this plant 2 different years with no luck. After trying everything to please it, I gave u...Read More
Dicentra (from the Greek words dis, meaning “two”, and kentros, meaning “spurs”) are spring blooming. Generally, the cooler the ...Read More
This is a lovely plant that I planted in a border that receives nice mid-morning sun and shade the rest of the day. It loves the locatio...Read More
If you plan to move this plant be certain to get ALL of its brittle, fleshy roots. I must have missed a piece (thought I had checked care...Read More
Grows well in my shade garden. Plant is currently 3 years old and about 2.5 ft tall by approximately 6 ft wide. Will divide next spring.
This plant grows in my garden under medium to heavy shade in well-drained, composted soil. It seems to thrive there, but dies back when ...Read More
I have had success with this plant in a full sun location, in sandy soil, by keeping the soil moist at all times.
I don't know much about this flower. I live in Washington State, and it was in my backyard when I moved in. It is beautiful, and I wasn't...Read More
Drought sends this plant into early dormancy; prolonged wet soil makes it die. Best in that infamous "moist, well-drained soil".
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Bleeding Heart, grows well in cool climate in Southcentral Alaska. The shoots start to pop up through the mulch sometime in April, and we...Read More
Grows 24" to 36" high, and 18" to 24" spread. Flowers are heart shaped and usually pink, although there are white, red, purple, and yello...Read More