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
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