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"It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise."
Sara Teasdale
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
Neil Gaiman
Bleeding Heart, with its heart-shaped flowers, is an old-fashioned perennial plant commonly found in cottage gardens. Native to northern China, Korea and Japan, bleeding hearts were discovered and brought to England by a plant explorer of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1846. Bleeding heart has many other names such as Dutchmans Trousers, Lady Locket, Lady in a Boat and Venus' Car.
The bleeding heart or Valentine flower is known under several species names. The common bleeding heart is still known as Dicentra spectabilis. The taxonomy has changed and the species is now known as Lamprocapnos spectabilis, although you will see it commonly referred to as Dicentra. The name Dicentra was derived from the Greek dis, which means twice, and kentron, which means spur, in reference to the two hooks on each bloom. Spectabilis refers to the plant's showy or 'spectacular' appearance.
Bleeding heart are not just known for their lovely heart-shaped flowers, it also describes a person who "makes an ostentatious or excessive display of pity or concern for others".
Picture taken with Sony Alpha 700 Camera and Sigma 70mm F/2.8 EX DG Macro Lens at F/4.0 and 1/25 sec exposure time. ISO speed set at 400. Exposure Compensation -.3. Metering Mode Center Weighted Average.
Pacific Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa); Sweet Creek Falls Trail, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon.
Bleeding Heart bush. It dies to the ground every year, and starts its growth in March, even though there is usually snow on the ground still.
the delicate little bleeding hearts looking so perfectly happy and flourishing in the spring sunshine
Bleeding Broadleaf Crust, ( Stereum rugosum ),
Similar to Bleeding Oak Crust but generally paler in colour and found on a rang of broadleaved trees.
Fruit Body, Usually fully resupinate, but occasionally with a narrow, projecting, uplifed maringinal zone; upper surface smooth or slightly warty, becoming hard and crusty when old; buff, tin pink, with the margin distinctly paler; bleeds red when damaged; sometimes found on thin twigs of birch, when it appears as small, rounded patches.
Habitat, Living and dead wood of deciduous trees and shrubs, particlarly Hazel and Beech,
Status, Widespread and common,.....
I am thinking Spring but the weather is not cooperating! I may have to get a raincoat for my camera and go out anyway.