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Pink Bleeding Heart
Dicentra spectabilis
Regular price
$13.32
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$13.32
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$0.00
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Zones
2-9
ZONES
2-9
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Description
This is the runaway favorite, long one of American gardeners favorite plants. All over North America, this hardy spring beauty reigns supreme with graceful arching stems and its famous heart-shaped flowers. Choose a moist, shady spot, and you'll enjoy them for years.
Great color in the shade, The Bleeding Hearts. The genus Dicentra, commonly called Bleeding Heart, gives us some of the most treasured plants in America, providing dependable color in moist shade as companions with Hostas and Ferns. There are basically two major types:
1. Most popular and world-famous, is D. spectabilis, a species native to Japan. It is the larger of the two (to about 3 feet,) and has the famous little heart-shaped flowers arrayed along arching stems, a lot like a string of pearls. The large bleeding hearts bloom only in spring, and in some areas, disappear altogether by midsummer, much like Trilliums and Daffodils.
2. The second type, the Fernleaf Bleeding Hearts, are hybrids of North American native wildflowers. They are smaller with finely cut blue-green foliage and similar flowers. However, with the fernleafs, the flowers are more bunched at the top of the stems, more like a dangling bouquet. And best of all, these plants continue to bloom not only in spring, but all summer into fall.
Our native Dicentras are all wonderful wildflowers of woodland shade, from the eastern Dutchmans Breeches and Fringed Bleeding Heart to the Northwests Pacific Bleeding Heart.
These magnificent plants have long been a herald of spring in Zones 2 to 9, a huge area of the US. They are quite easy to grow, as long as woodland conditions are provided. That means some shade, plenty of moisture with good drainage, and rich soil. Once your clumps have become large, you can easily divide the rhizomes after flowering.
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Overall rating: 4.625 / 5 from 48 reviews.
AI Generated Review Summary
The Pink Bleeding Heart is a highly favored plant among American gardeners, known for its graceful arching stems and heart-shaped flowers. It thrives in moist, shady spots and provides dependable color in shade, especially in spring. This plant is easy to grow with the right woodland conditions.
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- Plant Health: 32%
- Bleeding Heart Plant Satisfaction: 16%
Review topics: ["look","weather","buy","plants","flowers","roots","grew","growing","bleeding heart"].
Review highlights
- "I planted 1 root 3 weeks ago and there is already perfectly healthy and happy plant of about 5 inches!" —
- "This was my first time ordering from American Meadows and I was very pleased with the delivery and the plants." —
- "Beautiful healthy plants." —
Reviews
The plants packaged really well
"I have this with my wildflower garden, it looks soo good with these flowers. They are already blooming, so happy with them. My grandmother had bleeding heart, so they provide me with precious memories"
Worried at first but wow!
"When I first received this I was worried because it was just a little dried up with old thing. But I buried it and waited and I'm so pleased - new shoots started coming up right away - within a couple days. And now it's grown to the size of a small mound & seems very healthy. Looking forward to blooms next year! Would totally Buy again."
I would buy this product again
"The bleeding heart plants I purchased from American Meadows are good. I would purchase them again."
Impressive
"This bleeding heart came in fantastic condition. . best ever from a mail order company. I planted it in a container and it's thriving."
hasn't come up, alas
"looked great when it came in. however, it has not grown since being planted"
I'm so excited they're growing so fast!
"I love that they came with instructions and they came undamaged and healthy"
Just beautiful
"Love these! Beautiful bloom. Bloomed right away after planting them."
It took 3 years for my bleeding hearts.
"Have patience and make sure your plants have great draining, use a compost mix with the original dirt and some perlite with potting soil mix well with a auger on the end of a drill. Then plant"
Looks promising!
"The starts look healthy! If they're like anything else I've bought off this website, they'll be massive and gorgeous in a few years! I can't wait for the first flowers to show in a few years! 🥰"
Bloomed within the first couple months of planting.
"I planted this in the end of April the day it was received and within the first month I was already getting foliage and blooms. For reference these pictures were taken on May 23rd and I received the package on April 29th. I plan to purchase more for next spring."