Common Bleeding Heart

Dicentra spectabilis


$29.00

Bushy upright mounded selection features blue-green fern-like foliage and arching stems of heart shaped locket flowers with white protruding petals; excellent for shaded borders and beds; beautiful cut flower; goes into summer dormancy

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Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Common Bleeding Heart is an herbaceous perennial with a mounded form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

Planting and Growing

and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 15 years. As an herbaceous perennial, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen! As this plant tends to go dormant in summer, Common Bleeding Heart will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity, individual plants should be spaced approximately 30 inches apart. It grows at a medium rate, it is best interplanted with late-season bloomers to hide the dying foliage., this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, with a spread of 3 feet. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant

and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil pH, This plant does best in partial shade to shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions

Plant Facts

Prefers partial shade to shade

Deer Resistant

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 3'Hx3'W

Flowers are pink

Flowers from late spring to early summer

Attracts butterflies

Zone 1b

Likes average to moist soil