Bleeding Heart (Lamprocapnos, formerly Dicentra) never fails to enchant us each spring with strings of little heart-shaped flowers, dangling like so many lockets on a vintage charm bracelet.
If you don’t already grow one of these beauties, maybe now’s the time. Planting a bleeding heart is a lovely way to honor someone’s memory if you’ve recently lost a loved one, or a pet. Perhaps you just enjoy romantic and nostalgic things. Long lived and totally carefree, bleeding hearts unfurl their charms each spring to delight us for a few brief weeks, then softly fade away.