Dactylicapnos Species, Bleeding Heart Vine, Golden Tears, Yellow Bleeding-Hearts Vine

An incredible plant in zone 8a/8b. It will wilt when too dry, but it always bounced right back with some water. It didn't need to be very...Read More moist, but it didn't like the soil to be bone dry. It flowered early and all season long, and was absolutely covered in bright yellow flowers at all times. It grows quickly, and will totally cover anything that it can climb on. I accidentally sprayed it with Spectracide weed killer once... and it died back to the ground level. Fortunately it came back within a week or two with twice as many shoots, as vigorous as ever. I believe it got to at least the height of my gutters on my house that year. I wish I brought it with me when I moved!

Supposedly, this plant is not supposed to be hardy in my zone. I am in a zone 4 to 5 and this plant/vine does excellent here. I am also v...Read Moreery high up in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and that doesn't seem to faze it either. I've had rather good luck growing many plants that are not supposed to be hardy here. I planted my Dicentra scandens 'Golden Tears' from seed which I kept in the freezer for a month. They came right up and now I have a beautiful perennial vine that everyone asks about and wants cuttings of. No one here has obviously ever seen one. It's like I try to tell everyone here in Helena and Montana......Experiment! You'll be pleasantly surprised!

I purchased this plant from a nursery 6 weeks ago. It is growing very fast, but not blooming at all. I was told at the nursery that it ...Read Morewould produce a white heart with a red "drop" coming out of the heart. Do I need to prune it back to get it to bloom? Will it bloom in the fall? There were no tags on this plant to tell me the info I need.

This is a very aggressive vine that is totally unfazed by being in our hot CA full sun. It is planted on a vine wall with a clematis and...Read More Cross Vine "Dragon Lady" and the Dicentra has completely engulfed them both. I am not concerned though, the Cross Vine and Clematis are poking through where they need to and thriving, so the dicentra is not choking them out. And another plus is that while the Cross Vine and Clematis are only seasonal bloomers, the Dicentra blooms all the time and takes up the slack in the color department. We had 2 weeks straight of night freezing last winter and the Dicentra came back from the roots, no problem.