Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart
| Botanical Name: | Dicentra spectabilis, Dicentra spectabilis 'Alba' |
| Category: | Shade Perennials |
| Height: | 2-3' |
| Spread: | 2-3'+ |
| Exposure: | Sun to Part shade |
| Care: | Cut to ground when foliage yellows in early summer |
| Deer Resistant: | Y |
| Description: | A garden favorite forever, this old fashioned perennial bears masses of beautiful heart shaped pink (or white) flowers on drooping stems. Stunning in bloom in the semi-shaded garden with 'Spring Bulbs', 'Lungwort' or 'Pansies'. It goes dormant after bloom, so interplant it with some later arriving perennials, such as 'Hardy Begonias', 'Hostas' or 'Ferns (deciduous types)' |
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List of Shade Perennials
Autumn Fern
Bishop's Hat, Barrenwort, Epimedium
Bowle's Golden Sedge
Brunnera, False Forget-me-not, Siberian Bugloss
Cinnamon Fern
Coral Bells
Dead Nettle
Evergold Sedge
Fanal Astilbe, Fanal False Spirea
Ferns
Fire and Ice Hosta, Fire and Ice Plantain Lily
Frances Williams Hosta, Frances Williams Plantain Lily
Great Expectations Hosta, Great Expectations Plantain Lily
Green Spice Coral Bells
Hardy Begonia
Heartleaf Bergenia, Pigsqueak
Hostas, Plantain Lilies
Japanese Beech Fern
Lady's Mantle
Lenten Rose
Lungwort
Luxuriant Bleeding Heart, Fringed Bleeding Heart
Maidenhair Fern
Mourning Widow Cranesbill Geranium
Obsidian Coral Bells
Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart
Ostrich Fern
Patriot Hosta, Patriot Plantain Lily
Paul's Glory Hosta, Paul's Glory Plantain Lily
Peach Blossom Astilbe, Peach Blossom False Spirea
Rheinland Astilbe, Rheinland False Spirea
Robb's Wood Spurge
Splendid Chinese Wild Ginger
Stormy Seas Coral Bells
Sweet Woodruff
Variegated Solomon's Seal
Virginia Bluebells