Pretty Little Bleeding Hearts
by Kay Novy
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Pretty Little Bleeding Hearts
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Kay Novy
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Bleeding hearts are traditional favorites in shade gardens. Their foliage tends to die back after the plants are done flowering, leaving behind vacant spots in the planting bed. To retard die back, give bleeding heart liberal doses of water after flowering. It's also a good idea to surround bleeding hearts with hosta plants and other shade-loving perennial flowers that will fill in those vacant spots during the summer. Bleeding hearts are striking enough to warrant their use as specimen plants in spring.
The outstanding characteristic of bleeding hearts is no doubt the shape of the flowers. As the plants' common name suggests, bleeding hearts bear heart-shaped flowers, from which a little "drop of blood" dangles at the bottom. On the type with pink flowers, the drop is prettiest, in my opinion, before the bloom fully opens, since, during this early period, the sides of the drop are streaked with pink; after the bloom fully opens, the drops are just white. They are truly among the most whimsical plants you can grow in the landscape.
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June 17th, 2015
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David Griffith
This is really beautiful, the perfect composition and the delicate soft colours . . . L/F/P/T
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from the H IS FOR HEART themed week! You are invited to add this wonderful art to the features archive.
Liesl Walsh
So beautiful! I had hostas planted with my bleeding hearts, too, and they complemented each other very well with how they filled out the garden! l/f
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