Grow bleeding hearts in partial shade to full shade, in a well-drained soil that has plenty of humus.
I'm excited about this particular Bleeding Heart! It's so beautiful and I love it! The combination of the leaves and the flowers is stunning! It's truly worth searching for, if even getting it through mail order! When it's in bloom with the beautiful colored leaves every year, I just can't quit looking at it! A winner of a Bleeding Heart!
Dutchman's Breeches are one of the early spring ephemerals. All traces of these plants are gone by late summer.
I have had this plant for three years, and it seems to have more petals each following year.
One of my all-time favorite plants. It blooms for pretty much the whole growing season, and the flowers have a fascinating shape. The leaves are also attractive. It grows in a thick clump, and spreads slowly by branching rhizomes.
Like http://garden.org/plants/view/537694/ and http://garden.org/plants/view/76258/ , this is a hybrid of http://garden.org/plants/view/143008/ , the Japanese and Siberian alpine species, and http://garden.org/plants/view/76257/ , the Appalachian species, bred by Akira Shiozaki.
Native in the Pacific Northwest, west of the Cascades from British Columbia to California, from the coast to mid elevations. Found in the understory of conifer forests. This happy groundcover naturalizes where it wants in my gardens, typically in shady areas. After it blooms, I pull it all out to neaten up the bed, and it always returns the following spring.
According to Bleeding Hearts, Corydalis, and Their Relatives, [i]Dicentra[/i] 'King of Hearts' is a hybrid of three bleeding-hearts: http://garden.org/plants/view/143008/ , the Japanese and Siberian alpine species, crossed with a hybrid of http://garden.org/plants/view/81513/ , the southern Oregonian and northern Californian subspecies of the Pacific Coast species, and http://garden.org/plants/view/76257/ , the Appalachian species. It was developed by Marion Ownbey of Washington State University. It's like [i]Dicentra peregrina[/i] in preferring cool temperatures and having bluish gray-green leaves.
According to Bleeding Hearts, Corydalis, and Their Relatives, this is a German hybrid bred by Ernst Pagels, and its parents were http://garden.org/plants/view/76257/ and http://garden.org/plants/view/81512/ . Said to be very tolerant of hot and humid climates, a characteristic that it got from [i]D. eximia[/i].
Very similar to Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria). The leaves are difficult or impossible to tell apart. I have had the plants for many years now, but they have never bloomed. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
