Bleeding Heart Fuschia

Hi all,

I've been out tinkering and sorting out the garden this weekend. Moved a couple of plants around, checking out whats been damaged by the harsh winter (good news, not much!) BUT I have a question. March last year, I brought a bleeding heart fuschia. I went away for a month, the BF did not water it and then it seemed to die, so in an attempt to rescue it, I cut it right down, but nothing happened. Winter came, I chopped it to the base, stuck some mulch over it and just left it, assuming it was dead. Today during checking out the garden, I discovered it is making a comeback!!! So my question is, should I just leave it OR... My garden is North West facing, the front gets more sun (and so is better for flowers) so could I put it in a BIG pot instead of the rhododendron there or would it hate that much sun and being moved when it is in such a fragile state?

Help! Its such a pretty plant - I want to give it the best chance but also have it in a good spot for all to see!!

 

mz

Leave it alone and it should grow this year. Your mulching it has saved the frosts getting to the roots,so it's started to shoot from them. If we have any more hard frosts just cover over the new growth with more mulch or newspaper when a frost is forcast. I have not cut mine back yet will do in the next week or two. Good luck

 

What`s a bleeding heart fuchsia?

 

Isn't it Dicentra? The flowers look like one.

 

Sounds like dicentra spectabilis,it dies down after flowering and the feathery leaves are reapearing now

 

Yep, I too opened this to see what this plant was????

 

And I just bought one:D

 

In a portion of one of my gardens I have the dicentra spectabilis planted (3) of them and cimicifugas, not planned but the leaves are so similiar. Looks nice as the later one starts growing into the early one. Then I just cut back the bleeding hearts when done. Looks non stop in that area.