Growing Dicentra

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Dicentra is a great naturalising non-invasive clump forming perennial with distinctive heart shaped flowers on arched stems in late spring/summer and attractive foliage. The many dangling dainty flowers in striking bright colours are delightful when they flower in late spring to summer. Their common name bleeding heart comes from the unique heart shape of the little flowers which dangle prettily from attractively curved stems.


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0:00 Dicentra, now there's a group of plants it's got lots of names, lady in the bath,

0:05 all sorts of names this one's got. Bleeding Heart is a common one because of

0:10 the heart-shaped flower that opens out and looks like it's a heart broken in two.

0:14 But Dicentra is the main one, best planted in the borders, a

0:20 big fleshy rooted thing and it is a lovely plant in a mixed border,

0:26 in a moist condition, it likes humus rich, that's like a lot of compost in

0:32 because it's quite a fleshy plant. I'm doing Burning Hearts,

0:37 there's that quite a new range of them, this Burning Heart will grow in a pot

0:41 this size absolutely beautifully, it really will, and the colours of this

0:46 scarlet one are really exceptional now in a pot like this a few crops in the bottom

0:51 just to allow that drainage so they're not sitting in water, so a good

0:58 multi-purpose compost is really all that you need and it really couldn't be

1:04 simpler, but I just noticed the Spectabilis type, which are these big

1:09 fleshy rooted that should go straight out into the border. A fine, will grow in to

1:14 quite a large plant, but this Flaming Heart grows to a nice thirty centimeters

1:20 in a pot like this, that is lovely, even the tips of the growing tips are coming

1:25 out, look beautiful. Just spread the roots out, a little more compost on top and

1:34 it's as simple and as easy as that. The Dicentra range is quite nice now, the

1:40 Dicentra Spectabilis, which is the big border one. There's also Dicentra

1:44 Spectabilis Alba, which has white flowers and Dicentra Valentine, deep

1:50 red with burgundy's stems, fifty to sixty centimetres tall, they really should go

1:54 out into the border straight away but the other ones Dicentra Burning Heart

1:59 and Dicentra Luxuriant, they're wonderful in pots, Luxuriant being

2:04 cerise pink flowers, height about 30 centimetres, flowers May to September.

2:09 I'm really excited looking forward to what they're going to

2:12 look like. It adds old and new dimension to gardening. I think it's wonderful and

2:18 this one, first time I've grown this one, I've grown the Spectabilis quite often but

2:22 this one I'm looking forward to seeing, you see, life is anticipation and this one

2:30 I've got a feeling it's got to be a good one.


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