Favorite Perennial

Yesterday, I began the planning stage for this springs plantings by purchasing a few perennials for the garden.

Do you have a favorite perennial? At the top of my list,  is the Old-Fashioned Bleeding Heart. The botanical name is Dicentra spectabilis. The Bleeding Heart was available in America by 1866. Robert Fortune found it growing on the Island of Chusan and sent it to the Horticultural Society of London in 1846.

 Our Old-Fashioned Bleeding Heart has beautiful delicate pink, heart-shaped flowers with little white teardrop blooms that look like they are bleeding. The blooms are accentuated by fern-like leaves. I also love the fact that it blooms here in the early spring and lasts through early summer,

Have a beautiful day, Lori

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