Matt’s Adventures in Northwest Gardening

Here is an image of our Bleeding Heart plant. It has started to break through the soil already. It grows about three feet tall and has hundreds of little heart-shaped flowers that bloom all summer long. This is a red variety, though we planted unsuccessfully a white one last year as well.

Here in the Northwest we do have the native Pacific Bleeding Heart, but our plant is the common domesticated Dicentra spectabilis - with much rounder and bigger flowers.

This is a close-up on the little shoots.