My Bleeding Hearts yesterday ,,,,, Yippeee!

[Pandora]

My plants are always later than most people's around me since it is shaded and slopes North.

But here is a good sign, my BH are starting. Later the pink and white are so large they grow into each other and start to cover the gold leafed one.

There was a Trillium in front that has come and gone. I saw it but kept forgetting the camera.

[notmartha]

very pretty-mine are budding!

[Patrushka]

They are so pretty! I just love them.

[pauhaus]

Wow, those are beauties. Mine got hit by frost last night just as they were beginning to flower Anything I can do for them or are they goners this season?

[Pandora]

Thanks for the nice comments.

Paul, I think you might be surprised. If the stems are mushy and bent over I would trim them to the ground. I'll bet you will get more new growth this year.

[pauhaus]

Thanks for the advice. I will do just that and trim them.
BTW can you divide bleeding heart?

[Robyn]

I get enough volunteers from my old fashioned varieties that I don't have to divide. Just move the little plants where ever I want them. I know you can divide them though. The ever-blooming varieties don't seem fertile so I dig up the clump and whack it with a butcher knife. Works like a charm.

[pauhaus]

Very cool I have two others that are doing really well, the frost didn't seem to bother them at all. One is "King of Hearts" and the the tag on the other said dwarf bleeding heart "Dicentra eximia" . I thought d. eximia was also known as fringed bleeding heart, but anyway the form is amazing on that one and it's definitely one of my favorites.

[shadylanejewel]

BEAUTIFUL - One of my most favorite plants.

I'm always having to show the lady inside the hearts to my grandson.