Bleeding Heart is so tempting, but…

then it doesn’t last long in our Southern California soils. Or so it seems. Dicentra goes dormant in the summer, different than dead, so it’s easy to think the party is over and plant your petunias on top of it.

I planted my Bleeding Heart in the ground in a moist and shady spot in the garden. I left the pot on, since I had read that Dicentra dislikes root disturbance. In the ground it went, pot and all and a solid inch above the soil. You know, that Bleeding Heart came back in early spring for about three seasons.

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