Bleeding Heart 'Amore Titanium'

Old fashioned grandeur with a modern twist. Longer flowering, more floriferous, brighter white and more compact and well branched foliage. Elegant blooms from around November to April. Clusters of bright white flowers mass on slender, upright stems for many months through spring and summer. Below is a soft mound of blue-green, fern like foliage that remains a handsome feature well into autumn and matures to a deeper green. It is the extended, white petals that give Dicentra the common name of Bleeding Hearts. It is also known as Dutchman's Breeches because the large petals resemble the old fashioned Dutch trousers, seen during the Tesselaar Tulip Festival. Each flower is 2-3cm long. The blooms are suitable for picking. Bleeding Hearts are low maintenance plants ideal for a shade or woodland garden; morning sun, part shade or filtered light. Plant in cool, humus rich, moist, well drained soil, they tend to rot in boggy soils over winter. They grow well with Hostas, Ferns and similar plants. Incidentally, the leaves of the Hostas can be useful as a foil for the fading Bleeding Heart foliage as it goes into dormancy in the heat of summer. This dormancy can be delayed with a bit of extra watering, and you can enjoy the foliage up to early autumn. Water well in active growth. New foliage emerges in spring. Oh and rabbits seem to avoid it (as do deer) which is good news for many.