Dicentra spectabilis (Lamprocapnos) - ASIAN BLEEDING HEART

Old-fashioned Bleeding Heart with soft pink-white flowers in late spring. Elegant arching branches, silvery-green leaves.

Turns yellow and dies back in early summer (to come back the following year).

Easy to grow and trouble free longer-lived perennials.

Deer and rabbits avoid it.

Excellent Hosta companion!

Blooming Time: late spring = April/May (depending on your zone). Flowers for about 4 weeks
Size: up to 30-36" tall and wide
USDA Zones: 3 to 9
Culture: best if in half shade and dappled shade, in average soil enriched with some organic material, medium moisture. It can tolerate more sun, but only with constant moisture (full sun in the coldest regions). It will grow in full shade too, but will flower less.
Moisture Needs: medium, medium-moist
Origin: Native to Siberia, China, Korea and Japan
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes/yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: bees and bumblebees
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" perennial pot (1.22 pt)

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Plant combinations: Ideal for flower beds in half shade, light shade or dappled shade in avarege to deeper soil, woodland edges, woodland gardens, better in somewhat from wind sheltered position (stems are quite fragile). Good companion can be Bergenia, Brunnera, Geranium, Epimedium, Hosta, Iris sibirica, Omphalodes verna, Polygonatum, Primula, Hakonechloa. Good native perennial choices are Anemone, Asarum, Aster (woodland species), Eupatorium coelestinum, Heuchera, Geranium maculatum, Mertensia, Pachysandra procumbens, Polemonium reptans, Stylophorum, Trilliums, Waldsteinia fragarioides, and variety of spring emphemerals, sedges and ferns.