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April 28, 2009
Set Your Garden Ablaze with A New Bleeding Heart
If you've seen one bleeding heart, you've seen them all. Arching stems, tidy rows of pink flowers, a mound of mid-green leaves. Right? Wrong. Make room in your shade garden for the electric Dicentra 'Burning Hearts' (Zones 3 to 9), a Skagit Gardens introduction for 2009.
These charming red blossoms are trimmed at the edge with hints of white, which gives them the look of tiny, twirling petticoats. The flirty flowers hover above a stage of soft, blue-green, fernleaf foliage.
But looks are only part of this irresistible package. Who hasn't fantasized about a bleeding heart that blooms longer, stands up better to heat and drought, and—if kept moist—delays dormancy? In other words, it's capable of giving encore after encore.
Warning: If you give this plant too many standing ovations, the neighbors may approach timidly to inquire about your health. Just scoot over and give them a seat at the show.
These charming red blossoms are trimmed at the edge with hints of white, which gives them the look of tiny, twirling petticoats. The flirty flowers hover above a stage of soft, blue-green, fernleaf foliage.
But looks are only part of this irresistible package. Who hasn't fantasized about a bleeding heart that blooms longer, stands up better to heat and drought, and—if kept moist—delays dormancy? In other words, it's capable of giving encore after encore.
Warning: If you give this plant too many standing ovations, the neighbors may approach timidly to inquire about your health. Just scoot over and give them a seat at the show.
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