This is actually the best time to move Dicentra. :-) I usually move mine just about now. Chances are you'll leave a piece or two behind. They'll grow back anyway.

Tiffy - the squirrels here are sooooo different from the little red guys you have back in NS. In this area we have grey squirrels - they're huge compared to the red ones, they're so much more aggressive and they have two litters a year instead of the one litter the red ones have. They have adapted and thrive in cities (the red ones do not tolerate their habitat being destroyed and live in cities only in small numbers) and their numbers get so dense they are starving and desperate - they'll eat anything that doesn't bite back. I hate them!! In every area they have been introduced to, they displace the red squirrels and take over. Stupid beasts! I'm sure my Astilboides will come back, but the first leaves to emerge would have been the biggest. So it probably won't be as neat as it could have been, and I'll have to rig up a protective cover for the other leaves as they emerge. I have had success keeping the tree rats from eating my alliums and lilies with a paste made from vaseline and blood meal, so I'll try it on the Astilboides as well. I hope you get more germination of your poppies! One out of six is better than none, but it would be nicer to have more since they seem to have a high fatality rate! BP

I would like to trade someone some of my Dicentra cucullaria corms for corms of Dicentra canadensis. Mine has just gone dormant. Since the weather is hot, I wouldn't mind waiting to ship a trade until fall. Thanks

I have a lot of shade underneath my peach tree that's perfect for bleeding hearts and lily-of-the-valley.