Common Name: bleeding heart
Type: Herbaceous perennial
Zone: 3 to 9
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debbie
Location: Paramount, CA, USA
Love the leaves & flowers. I have trouble keeping the plants going - too much water? not enough water? It's in a nice shady spot.
CMC
Location: Greenwich, CT USA
A great plant that comes up year after year, bigger and better. Great in dense shade and tolerates some sun.
skp
Location: freehold, nj, usa
Light shade, moist and well drained soil. Spectacular, both the pink and especially Alba. Planted with hostas to fill in when Dicentra goes dormant.
coriaceous
Location: Boston, MA
A fantastic plant for the north. Will fade away if not given adequate cold-dormancy.
HARRY
Location: OREGON
These are such great plants. Start growing right thru a snow cover, blooms early, tons of flowers and there is not a bug in my neck of the woods that bothers them. Slugs, snails, beetles, grasshoppers, birds, squirrels, bunnies all around but none ever touch it. And if you keep it moist and some shade in summer you can have flowers from early spring to first real cold.
I was wondering if there has ever been any studies to see if there is a way to impart some of these admirable characteristics to other plants or maybe a non dangerous plant spray to keep bugs away??
YC
Location: Maine
This is such a great plant with pretty flowers in the shady part of my garden. Unfortunately, I lost a couple of these plants so it is not as reliable as I thought in my area.
E Harris
Location: W Chicago
One of the few shade perennials that hummingbirds will visit. Making this a great plant for pollinator lovers with limited sun (A few others are coral bells, Brunnera, woodland phlox, and Fuschia which is an annual)