Bleeding Hearts

Anyone have a Bleeding Heart? (the flowered variety..hehe)

I have the pink one which is very beautiful but i've noticed that some of the flowers on it are starting to go a pale white. What do i do with them do i dead head them or just leave them to sort themselves out? I've only had it for a few weeks so im a newie to growing them....

 

Just enjoy it, but never try to move one. they have very brittle roots and will die if you move them

 

No prob, thanks for the tip. Aren't they gorgeous though? i do like the white ones aswell but i think the pink really set the flowers off.

 

Hornbeam - now you tell me :D As part of clearing the bed of ground elder I had to lift all the dormant plants - one a dicentra. I held it in a pot for a couple of months and then when it started to shoot and there was no indication of ground elder, planted. Its in flower now

 

I dug one up (unknowingly) almost exactly a year ago to give a friend a bit. His bit died but mine survived. There were so many brittle roots left in the ground, that after consulting a book I dug them up, cut them into 3 inch lengths and potted them up as root cuttings, leaving them outside. For a year they did nothing, and only a few days ago I chucked them out, but I did notice that at least one had started to make some fine white roots, and most of them were still firm.

 

P. of S., If you leave the flowers they may set seed. If they do, collect the seed as soon as it is ripe [they produce tiny pods which will start opening, when they do the ripe seed for a pink flower is usually black ] and sow it somewhere sheltered to protect over winter. If you're lucky some will grow!