The Bleeding Heart
by Robert Bales
Title
The Bleeding Heart
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
After uploading the bleeding heart yesterday I decided to remove the one on the top to leave just one of them.
One of our favorite Spring flowers that we plant in the shade. I always look forward for this beautiful flower in the Spring.
Lamprocapnos spectabilis (bleeding heart) is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae, native to Siberia, northern China, Korea and Japan. It is the sole species in the monotypic genus Lamprocapnos, but is still widely referenced in the UK under its old name Dicentra spectabilis (now listed as a synonym). It is valued in gardens and in floristry for its heart-shaped pink and white flowers, borne in spring.
Bleeding heart has attractive mounded foliage with arching stems of delicate, heart-shaped flowers in spring. It thrives in moist woodland gardens along with ferns and other shade-lovers.
Bleeding heart grows best in cool, moist conditions. Flower colors include yellow, pink, red, and white. It blooms in spring and may rebloom sporadically throughout the summer in cool areas. Height ranges from 6 inches to 2 feet, depending on variety.
Bleeding hearts, the poetically named perennials, have heart-shaped pendant pink or whiteflowers with spurs at the base and fernlike attractive foliage. Dicentra spectabilis is the showiest, but its flowers finish in spring and its foliage disappears in midsummer. Other species continue to bloom all summer. Bleeding hearts need open or partial shade with an evenly moist, slightly acidic soil. Plenty of peat moss must be used when planting. Pine needles or pine bark are good for mulching. By division in early spring or from seed; roots are fleshy and sold by the number of eyes present on plant starts. Transplant self-sown plants.
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April 29th, 2014
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Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 Views on One Image Group's Special Features Nominations For Promotion #26 . Please help your fellow artists by visiting and passing on the love to another artist in the the 1000 Views on One Image Group....L/F/Tw
Jurgen Lorenzen
An amazing floral composition, Robert, nominating your image for a special Feature in the 1000 Views group!
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks, Christopher for the wonderful feature, congrats, invite, and promotion!!
Jasna Dragun
Congratulations !!! Your fellow artist chose this beautiful work as "Pick Of The Week" in the "Global Flowers Photography". Check out the group gallery and select another artist! l/f/fb