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.

Bleeding Hearts

Love that is too strong to contain satiates her lustful appetites.

Bleeding hearts

One of many on a tapered throng

Bleeding hearts

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

Explore #479 on Tuesday, May 3, 2011

First place winner for May 2011 featured on the front page at *Artist of the Year* Level 5

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Asian bleeding-heart

I've been taking macros of our "bleeding heart" plants, as the flowers develop. Here are a few of my shots.

This link is a Search for review of bleeding hearts tag.

May 4, 2011

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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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....

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The Bleeding Hearts are now blooming. I used a ShadowHouse Creations and a Jennyw47 texture.

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Member of the rhododendron family

Lamprocapnos spectabilis

Happy Friday! Thanks for stopping by and for all of your kind comments.

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