Bleeding heart plant in my garden

Bleeding heart end of summer

Focus stacking with Canon 90D camera and EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens

f/6.3 1/50 sec ISO 100

We also bought bleeding hearts for the garden, but they were planted in late spring, so these three little ones were the only flowers we have seen so far.

Interestingness #104 on July 2, 2014.

“Two souls with but a single thought,

Two hearts that beat as one!”

― John Keats

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Bleeding Hearts

Bleeding hearts

I almost missed them. They bloom early and don't last long when the weather heats up.

One of many on a tapered throng

Bleeding hearts

Canon EF 180mm/3.5 Macro L USM

Spring is in full bloom here.

Carl Zeiss Distagon 25mm f/2.8 @ f/8

Bleeding heart flower in a springtime forest

Flower is an inch across at its widest.

Dicentra, possibly D. spectabilis a native of Japan.

Grows especially vigorously and self-seeds.

Macro Mondays -- Symmetry

June 2009

Asian bleeding-heart

Bleeding Hearts

From the Neighborhood

May 4, 2011

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.

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.

© Melissa Post 2015

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Bleeding Heart Blooms

Eugene, OR

Olympus E-M1.3

Olympus 12-100mm

I bought a new lens for astro-photography but it has been cloudy so I took it for a test drive in the garden

in my garden in Spring

Alison's bleeding hearts getting admired from the garden gnome....