Bleeding heart 'Gold Heart'

Lamprocapnos spectabilis

How to grow Bleeding heart 'Gold Heart'

  • Dappled Sun

  • Medium

Keep the soil semi-dry in winter and in the summer keep the soil moist.

A dappled sun position will ensure your plant thrives and remember to water moderately. Keep in mind when planting that Gold Heart is thought of as very hardy, so this plant will tend to survive through freezing conditions. Ideally plant in clay soil and try to keep the ph of your soil between the range of 6.0 and 7.0 as Gold Heart likes to be in weakly acidic soil to neutral soil.

Growing Gold Heart from seed

Transplanting Gold Heart

Ensure that temperatures are mild and all chance of frost has passed before planting out, as Gold Heart is a very hardy plant.

Harvesting Gold Heart

Bleeding heart Gold Heart Etymology

The specific epithet means spectacular or showy.1

Footnotes

1 missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b217