Bleeding hearts 2017

Carol Dee

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I am hooked. I love the bleeding hearts. Several of these came to me from my sweet friend @Smart Red Looks like I have the original old fashioned type. Some yellow foliage and a white bloom. I thought I planted one with red blooms, not seeing it. So I still need one with red blooms and a fern or fringed variety too. Right? ;)
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On a side not, I brought home some pink lily of the valley from a local friend. they are back, happy-happy!
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2 of my favrites . I love any plant that needs no care, cames back every year better and better !!! I planted my bleeding hearts about 15 years ago, every spring they get bigger then last year. I like lily of the valley as a cut flower, shot glass make prefect vases for them.
 

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Your advice about putting in the pink ones is really good. I found some white ones on the NW and N beds, adjacent to the foundation of the house. They started spreading slowly north, so I dug some up and planted right next to the north foundation of the garage. They have quadrupled since 2016. I work in this bed a LOT, but they could easily take over the bed. They don't like full sun, so that is gonna help.
 

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Note to Carol Dee -- I have a red-flowered traditional style plant. I also have a couple of fern-leafed plants but I haven't checked if the flowers are pink, red, or white.

Once again I am without a white bleeding heart. Dearly Beloved just couldn't see the potential in plants with no flowers blending in with the weeds and took my white one out in 2016 for the last time.

I just traded plants with a church friend who was delighted to get the yellow-leafed one. I picked up a few dutchman's breeches in the deal along with a shrub I cannot yet identify.
 

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Poor valley! I remember them from my childhood. One grew on either side of Aunt Claris' farmhouse. Seemed to be 5 feet tall or more to this little girl. They certainly do grow well and easily in the right place.
So many of the fleeting flowers make up for their short season with such beautiful blooms.
On the other hand, I have found that the fern-leafed bleeding hearts do equally well in full sun and flower all summer long with good light.
 

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Poor valley! I remember them from my childhood. One grew on either side of Aunt Claris' farmhouse. Seemed to be 5 feet tall or more to this little girl. They certainly do grow well and easily in the right place.
So many of the fleeting flowers make up for their short season with such beautiful blooms.
On the other hand, I have found that the fern-leafed bleeding hearts do equally well in full sun and flower all summer long with good light.
Oooo good to here I just placed and order for some fern leaf. :)
 

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Since the neighbor took out the big maple that shaded most of my back yard these spend fair amount of time in the sun and are doing fine.
 

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