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How to Care Bleeding heart, Growing Bleeding heart, Caring for Bleeding heart
Also known as : Asian Bleeding-Heart
The genus 'bleeding heart' is a low-maintenance, shade-loving plant often found in woodland settings. They have basic care requirements, preferring partial to full shade, with well-draining, fertile soil, and consistent moisture. Bleeding heart plants can face challenges like slug and snail infestations, or problems like crown rot due to overly wet conditions. Seasonally, these plants thrive in cool spring and fall climates and may enter summer dormancy in hotter regions. Special care should be ensured during winters to protect its tuberous roots.
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Every week
Sunlight
Partial sun
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How to Water Bleeding heart?
Watering Frequency: Every week
Thriving in its native moist woodland settings, bleeding heart has adapted to prefer consistently moist soil without being waterlogged. It is drought-sensitive and favors a stable environment with high humidity. To mimic its natural conditions, bleeding heart should be watered every week. Given that bleeding heart is predominantly an outdoor plant, it flourishes when the rainfall patterns align with its growth cycles, ensuring adequate hydration during active development.
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How to Propagate Bleeding heart?
Bleeding heart can be propagated by seed sowing, cuttings, division, or tissue culture, with division being the most common. For successful propagation, maintain moist, well-draining soil, partial shade, and cool temperatures. Special considerations include avoiding overly wet conditions which can cause root rot, and protecting young plants from late frosts. This species has a moderate difficulty level for propagation due to its sensitivity to the right soil conditions and moisture levels. For division, the steps include: 1) Gently dig up the parent plant after flowering; 2) Separate the clumps carefully; 3) Replant the divisions immediately, keeping them moist until established.
How to Plant Bleeding heart?
The bleeding heart genus prefers rich, well-drained soil and partially shaded to full shade areas. Ensure that the plants are watered regularly, but avoid over-saturating the soil. Start by preparing the planting area with organic compost for nourishment. Position the plants maintaining enough space for growth. Post planting, mulch around the base to retain soil moisture and deter weeds. Note that specific species within the bleeding heart genus may have unique requirements. Overall, patience, attention, and regular care are key to a thriving bleeding heart plant garden.
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Attributes of Bleeding heart
Sunlight
Partial sun
Ideal Temperature
5 - 32 ℃
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Heart flower 'Alba'
Heart flower 'Alba' is a stunning and delicate perennial that produces beautiful green foliage, which contrasts beautifully with its pure white heart-shaped flowers. Heart flower 'Alba' can attract hummingbirds and bees to your garden. Be careful not to consume any part of this plant as it can be toxic.
Bleeding heart
Bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) is a flowering plant related to the poppy. Bleeding heart is native to Siberia, China, Korea, and Japan. This plant is commonly referred to as the Japanese bleeding heart. Bleeding heart is a popular ornamental plant and grows best in moist soils and full sunlight.
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Snow-poppies
Snow-poppies includes only one species. This perennial herb produces stolons from its branching rootstock, spreading to form patches on the ground. Its roots are orange. The leaves are all basal, borne on bluish petioles. The leaf blades are heart-shaped or kidney-shaped, with wavy, scalloped edges. They are greenish, sometimes with a purple tinge on the undersides. The scape is blue-gray with a mauve tint. The four white petals are arranged in two layers. The fruit is a capsule. It is native to China.
Rock harlequin
The rock harlequin are a genus with one singular species in the genus: Capnoides sempervirens. These plants will often be found growing in disturbed areas where fire scorched the land, blooming between spring and fall. Rock harlequin are recognizable by their little cluster of dainty, tubular-shaped flowers.
Eastern horned poppies
Eastern horned poppies is a genus in the poppy family Papaveraceae, the species of which are native to the Himalaya and western China. Although resembling the true horned poppies of Glaucium, they have stigmas with two lobes and fruit with only traces of the "horns".
Large-Flowered Dicentra
Large-Flowered Dicentra is a monotypic genus. It is a perennial plant growing from a long rhizome, native to woodland and glades at elevations of 1494 to 2713 m in northern Burma and southern China. Leaves of large-Flowered Dicentra are divided in threes twice or three times and toothed. Flowers hang at the end of leafy stems up to 1.006 m tall in cymes of 3-14 flowers and have two long, thin sepals and four cream to pale yellow petals. The two outer petals are bent outwards. The two inner petals are connected at the tip and pointed.
Ceratocapnos
Cysticapnos
Bleeding-Hearts
Bleeding-Hearts are recognizable by their finely divided leaves and heart-shaped, spurred flowers borne on leafless stems. Many bleeding-Hearts are regarded as ornamental plants, not only for their attractive flowers with a long blooming season, but also for their ability to thrive in shady places.
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Bleeding heart
Lamprocapnos
Also known as: Asian Bleeding-Heart
The genus 'bleeding heart' is a low-maintenance, shade-loving plant often found in woodland settings. They have basic care requirements, preferring partial to full shade, with well-draining, fertile soil, and consistent moisture. Bleeding heart plants can face challenges like slug and snail infestations, or problems like crown rot due to overly wet conditions. Seasonally, these plants thrive in cool spring and fall climates and may enter summer dormancy in hotter regions. Special care should be ensured during winters to protect its tuberous roots.
Watering Frequency
Every week
Sunlight
Partial sun
Basic Care Guide
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How to Water Bleeding heart?
Watering Frequency: Every week
Thriving in its native moist woodland settings, bleeding heart has adapted to prefer consistently moist soil without being waterlogged. It is drought-sensitive and favors a stable environment with high humidity. To mimic its natural conditions, bleeding heart should be watered every week. Given that bleeding heart is predominantly an outdoor plant, it flourishes when the rainfall patterns align with its growth cycles, ensuring adequate hydration during active development.
Advanced Care Guide
Feedback
How to Propagate Bleeding heart?
Bleeding heart can be propagated by seed sowing, cuttings, division, or tissue culture, with division being the most common. For successful propagation, maintain moist, well-draining soil, partial shade, and cool temperatures. Special considerations include avoiding overly wet conditions which can cause root rot, and protecting young plants from late frosts. This species has a moderate difficulty level for propagation due to its sensitivity to the right soil conditions and moisture levels. For division, the steps include: 1) Gently dig up the parent plant after flowering; 2) Separate the clumps carefully; 3) Replant the divisions immediately, keeping them moist until established.
How to Plant Bleeding heart?
The bleeding heart genus prefers rich, well-drained soil and partially shaded to full shade areas. Ensure that the plants are watered regularly, but avoid over-saturating the soil. Start by preparing the planting area with organic compost for nourishment. Position the plants maintaining enough space for growth. Post planting, mulch around the base to retain soil moisture and deter weeds. Note that specific species within the bleeding heart genus may have unique requirements. Overall, patience, attention, and regular care are key to a thriving bleeding heart plant garden.
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Attributes of Bleeding heart
Sunlight
Partial sun
Ideal Temperature
5 - 32 ℃
Scientific Classification of Bleeding heart
Types of Bleeding Heart
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Heart flower 'Alba'
Heart flower 'Alba' is a stunning and delicate perennial that produces beautiful green foliage, which contrasts beautifully with its pure white heart-shaped flowers. Heart flower 'Alba' can attract hummingbirds and bees to your garden. Be careful not to consume any part of this plant as it can be toxic.
Bleeding heart
Bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) is a flowering plant related to the poppy. Bleeding heart is native to Siberia, China, Korea, and Japan. This plant is commonly referred to as the Japanese bleeding heart. Bleeding heart is a popular ornamental plant and grows best in moist soils and full sunlight.
More Similar Plants
Feedback
Snow-poppies
Snow-poppies includes only one species. This perennial herb produces stolons from its branching rootstock, spreading to form patches on the ground. Its roots are orange. The leaves are all basal, borne on bluish petioles. The leaf blades are heart-shaped or kidney-shaped, with wavy, scalloped edges. They are greenish, sometimes with a purple tinge on the undersides. The scape is blue-gray with a mauve tint. The four white petals are arranged in two layers. The fruit is a capsule. It is native to China.
Rock harlequin
The rock harlequin are a genus with one singular species in the genus: Capnoides sempervirens. These plants will often be found growing in disturbed areas where fire scorched the land, blooming between spring and fall. Rock harlequin are recognizable by their little cluster of dainty, tubular-shaped flowers.
Eastern horned poppies
Eastern horned poppies is a genus in the poppy family Papaveraceae, the species of which are native to the Himalaya and western China. Although resembling the true horned poppies of Glaucium, they have stigmas with two lobes and fruit with only traces of the "horns".
Large-Flowered Dicentra
Large-Flowered Dicentra is a monotypic genus. It is a perennial plant growing from a long rhizome, native to woodland and glades at elevations of 1494 to 2713 m in northern Burma and southern China. Leaves of large-Flowered Dicentra are divided in threes twice or three times and toothed. Flowers hang at the end of leafy stems up to 1.006 m tall in cymes of 3-14 flowers and have two long, thin sepals and four cream to pale yellow petals. The two outer petals are bent outwards. The two inner petals are connected at the tip and pointed.
Ceratocapnos
Cysticapnos
Bleeding-Hearts
Bleeding-Hearts are recognizable by their finely divided leaves and heart-shaped, spurred flowers borne on leafless stems. Many bleeding-Hearts are regarded as ornamental plants, not only for their attractive flowers with a long blooming season, but also for their ability to thrive in shady places.
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