Blooming in the spring, bleeding heart will grow up to 2 feet high and up to 30 inches wide. It finishes its growing cycle when warm weather sets in. The flowers fade, the leaves die back, and the plant goes dormant in late spring or early summer. Bleeding Hearts are woodland plants s...
Bleeding hearts like a spot with just dappled sunlight. My bleeding hearts and I have had a love/hate relationship for years. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to grow the perennial in spots that get some direct sunlight. I tried it in the shade of a birdbath. I tried it in an east-facin...
Amaranthus caudatus commonly called love-lies-bleeding or tassel flower, gets its unusual common namefrom its tiny blood red petalless flowers that bloom in narrow, drooping, tassel-like, terminal and axillary panicles throughout the growing season. Do you pinch out Amaranthus? For leaf production...