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. . . I love it when these flowers pop up next to our garage! According to one of my friends, the red hearts break (bleed) at the bottom to allow the white parts out.
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Flower is an inch across at its widest.
Dicentra, possibly D. spectabilis a native of Japan.
Grows especially vigorously and self-seeds.
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corner of greville street and bleeding heart yard, close to hatton garden, london's diamond district.
In April I posted a single Bleeding heart that was the survivor on a plant my wife had bought but the wind wiped it out.
Well, some more flowers did come back!
My Dicentra, or bleeding hearts plant is once again putting on a great show this April. During winter there is no sign of this plant at all as everything above ground just disappears. Then in very early spring the new shoots of life appear and then like a rocket it just grows and grows until it bursts out with hundreds of these hearts.
I created the heart using an LED flashlight and a 30 second shutter speed. The red portion comes from the light illuminating the blood in my fingers.
Asian bleeding-heart grows to 120 cm (47 in) tall by 45 cm (18 in) wide. It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial with 3-lobed compound leaves on fleshy green to pink stems. The arching horizontal racemes of up to 20 pendent flowers are borne in spring and early summer. The outer petals are bright fuchsia-pink, while the inner ones are white. The flowers strikingly resemble the conventional heart shape, with a droplet beneath - hence the common name. The pure white-flowered 'Alba', somewhat more robust than the species, is a popular cultivar.
The plant sometimes behaves as a spring ephemeral, going dormant in summer.
People, people, people, you know what it means to be left alone ...
No letter today, not even a call on my telephone ...
Elmore James, 1961
Hope these beautiful bleeding hearts brighten your Valentine's Day, especially if you are alone.
Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.
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