Celebrate your love for gardening by planting a garden valentine or give one to someone special, fat free! Bleeding hearts were once called "The Lady in the Locket" for if you turn it upside down, a tiny figure emerges from the center. If you peel back the red petals that surround the figure, you may see the lady in the bathtub, as sometimes been called. I don't know about you, but I love the history or fairy tales behind flowers, they just add to their beauty.
Don't be fooled by their dainty appearance, common bleeding hearts are very hardy and fuse free once planted in the proper place. They prefer a shady spot, usually tucked in the middle of a bed so they can be surrounded by others to fill in for them once they have bloomed for the season. Bleeding hearts are a popular, old fashioned cottage garden favorite. Don't be shocked when your bleeding heart dies back in July, it will come back bigger and better the following spring. A common companion to these sweet valentines are ferns since they love the same conditions and will cover up for their loss of foliage.
Bleeding hearts love the companionship of other flowers, flourishing in a well stocked bed or boarder. If you plan it right, this bed can bloom all year long but it's the first sight of these garden valentines that will delight and signal the start of spring. So, plant this sweetheart of a valentine in your garden and be amazed at one of natures true wonders!
5 notes from farmstead friends...:
Sue, Herbal Farmstead made the cover this month. Please have a look when you get a chance. xxoo
I <3 Bleeding Hearts too! I was so sad when I had to dig mine up and give them away (no safe place here to transplant) when we did our basement 6 years ago!! I think it's time to get some again.
would so love to grow some of those. very pretty.
I fell in love with bleeding hearts a few years back and planted one in my backyard. Last year it was gorgeous.
I wish I could grow Bleeding Hearts in the desert. I just love them!
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