They are beautiful but I wish the blooms lasted longer. I have the pink but have never seen the white kind. I'm trying to grow the yellow ones this year. You have a lot of partial shade don't you? I wish I had something besides full sun.
Karyn

Karyn, Yes I have lots of shade.. remember, I had an acre cleared for the GH. My blooms last a long time. I also have pink in the fern leaf bleeding heart. It is a lot shorter than these. This kind gets about 2 feet tall. I didn't know there was a yellow one.. You know what that means !!

Those are so pretty but I know they won't grow here its so hot. I had one in my buggy at Lowes last week and didn't know what it was and my friend said are you going to try to grow that bleeding heart here? I put it right back on the sale table, lol. I did have one in Lousiana as a house plant but it was in the perfect spot I guess. When I moved it promply died.

Edna those are so pretty!!! I grew one for a couple of yrs. But they really don't appreciate the heat here. Kristy I always drive one around a while before I take it back to the shelf...LOL I would love to see the Yellow one..

Kylie

That sopunds like me! Push the darn thing around the entire store & then decide you don't want it! What's really bad is when you pick up something in the garden center & end up leaving it in the produce section! Please - don't ask!! lol!

Mike

Okay Mike Im asking.LOL
Bonnie

Me too, lol. I am bad about that. I was just pushing that cart around with my friend and loading it up then we got to the register and she only had 2 things and I realized the rest of the buggy was mine. I have a serious problem, lol. I had to put a few things back that I really wanted. I just love plants and want so many. I wish I had a huge place and a work crew at my disposal, lol.

Ok - if you must know! lol! It's not a pretty picture though. Picture your Wal Mart store going in through the plant department & the food department is WAY on the other side of the store. I've often wanted one of the 'Sago Palms' (always thought they were nice.) I had finally gotten one that looked really, really nice & lifted it into the cart. Of course then you need a good size pot - right? Then there's the potting mixture - right? Off you go pushing your little cart through the store. Gotta have a new pack of t-shirts - right? A few candles - of course! I like the smell of the vanilla ones. Finally get to the bakery dept. Have to have the apple turnovers - right? Juice - why not? What's for dinner? Meat department - hamburger - then buns - opps, forgot I need ketchup! Then to the produce section - one white onion! Chips - gotta have chips - back I go to get the Wavy Lays! Heading back to the produce section - opps french fries! Down the frozen food aisle! Many little turns here & there throughout the store. What a day! Head of lettuce & tomatoes! Got em! Open wallet & count! Add up stuff in cart! :) You get the picture - right?? 'Sago Palm' & pot sitting by the pineapples! Quite a display I might add!

Mike

ps: I did keep the potting mixture though. It always comes in handy! And I like the new tee-shirts too! :)

Have always loved this plant, have tried it before, but they don't survive here because it gets too hot. Yet, the nursery by my home keeps selling them. Once through a trade of a different plant, a seed of the fern-leaf bleeding heart must have been in the roots, and it grew and flowered! I was so happy when I spotted the plant, but then it died :-(.

My pink bleeding heart is blooming nicely now, the white hasn't started yet though. It was new last spring, bloomed for me, but maybe it hasn't quite settled in yet. Of course, it is in deeper shade than the pink one. Love bleeding heart!

LOL Mike I have done that!! You just always pick a spot where it looks as tho it is part of a display...ROFL!!!

Nice, like eloise, i have tried these before and they always die. Its way too hot here for them, yet the nurseries carry them in large numbers.

When i read "bleeding heart" my mind automatically goes to the bleeding heart vine (clerodendron thomsoniae) because that is the "bleeding heart" that is grown here.

Well that certainly answers a question for me about Bleeding Heart. I had a Dicentra Spectabilis in White for several years in deep shade. It did very well until about 3 years ago. I always considered Memphis to be Zone 7 until a Horticulturist told me we had been changed to Zone 8. Over the last 3 years it has been getting over 100 frequently in July and August. I didn't know Bleeding Hearts couldn't take the heat. That is why mine probably finally died last year. I was going to get abunch of the Aurora White type, but will have to pass now. Glad I didn't spend a bunch on plants only to watch them all die this Summer.

I love C. thomsoniae. I have the standard and variegated forms. They do beautifully over the summer but need winter protection here. A good mulching won't do it, they need to be brought in. I wish they could stay out year round because they would cover a huge area in no time. In the few months they are outside here they'll cover at least a 10' section of fence. I have to cut them back almost to the soil line to get them inside. It kills me everytime I cut them back.
Karyn