Faye: Are you bleeding chocolate?

me: No - that's paint!

Faye: Ewww - I wanted to lick it o.O

me: tehehe - your fault!

Lamprocapnos spectabilis, Bleeding Heart, thrives in my shaded fern garden. The red/pink variety spreads easily but not this white variety. It is over 4 years old and is big and robust but has never spread. Must be a sterile hybrid perennial. It only causes it to stand out in the corner of this garden.

Three hearts - beat as one

Bleeding heart tetra.

Such a neat looking flower. These ones are dead, but personally I quite like the way a lot of dead plants look.

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One of my Flickr friends asked me yesterday in a kindly way. Doug do you shoot anything besides birds anymore? I think he may have become bored with my one subject the past few months. LOL

Yes I do. Have several gig of flower shots I actually haven't looked at yet. We have had a gray wet summer so I haven't shot but a handful of Landscapes and haven't had enough energy the last couple months to go chase moose. My future says I have another month or so of down time coming soon that should supply enough time to get through the 15 or so gig of unedited files. Yes my friend I still love to shoot other things.

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White calyces reveal crimson flowers on a rain-speckled bleeding heart vine, Clerodendrum thomsoniae.

Read all about it at www.clevercakestudio.com/2008/05/19/bleeding-armadillo/

I'm no longer updating this gallery. I've moved my cake gallery to CleverCakeStudio.com (the Flickr username is also CleverCakeStudio)

Please come visit the new collection!

Bleeding Hearts

Bleeding Gods

Lamprocapnos spectabilis (formerly Dicentra spectabilis; old-fashioned bleeding-heart, Venus's car, Lady in a bath, Dutchman's trousers, or Lyre-flower) is a rhizomatous perennial plant native to eastern Asia from Siberia south to Japan.

A perennial in our back yard.

Lamprocapnos spectabilis (formerly Dicentra spectabilis); also known as old-fashioned bleeding-heart, Venus's car, Lady in a bath, Dutchman's trousers, or Lyre-flower is a rhizomatous perennial plant native to eastern Asia from Siberia south to Japan. It is a popular ornamental plant for flower gardens in temperate climates, and is also used in floristry as a cut flower for Valentine's Day. It usually has red heart-shaped flowers with white tips which droop from arching flower stems in late spring and early summer. White-flowered forms are also cultivated.

Bleeding hearts flowers on a stem

Bleeding Hearts

Got a mess of good pics of these at Mom and Dads....:)

Hit EXPLORE at position: 448 on Tuesday, May 13, 2008

finally conned someone over to help me bleed the brakes

Bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis), the standard garden version of this plant.

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better view

Bleeding Gods

Pink Bleeding Hearts

Chocolate heart cake for halloween. Cherry sauce for the clotting blood and marzipan beetles munching on the flesh!

Dicentra spectabilis, a perennial which, in spring, bears horizontal stems bearing red and white, heart-shaped flowers.

© Nicola Stocken Tomkins. Countryside May 2012.

I saw these little bleeding hearts dangling in the breeze today on my walk...

I think they remind me of little "strawberry shortcake" dolls that I had when I was growing up - showing my age :)

VanDusen Botanical Garden

Vancouver, BC Canada

Photo taken: May 2, 2012

Photo credit: Raymond Chan, Photomedia

Fletcher's Creek Rec Centre. Brampton Ontario, Canada

I've known bleeding hearts as spring flowers, but this one waited until June to even poke above ground. It wasn't until mid-July that it flowered, so I hope it will stay around for a while.

Toronto, Canada ~ May 29, 2011.

Bleeding Mycena (Mycena haematopus). Western Regional Park, Maryland.

Seems to have exploded into flower suddenly.

Bleeding Heart taken in the Elkmont area of the Smoky Mountain National Park

...the flowers, that is. Green Timbers park in Surrey, BC. 120512-07

I'm trying to learn to effectively use gradients. I'm not doing very well.

Olympus OM-2n

Zuiko 55mm 1.2/f

Bleeding Through