How to Cultivate Seeds From a Bleeding Heart Plant

Dicentra, also known as the Bleeding Heart Plant, can grow to four feet in height. With delicate pink and white flowers and fern-like foliage, the bleeding heart will bloom from the first warm days of spring until the final hours of summer. The bleeding heart is a native woodland perennial; the name describes the blooms, which look like small hearts with a drop of blood. Other common names for the dicentra plant are Lady in the Bath and Dutchman’s Breeches. Sowing the seed of the Bleeding Heart is very simple.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

things you’ll need:

• Rake

1. Sow your Bleeding Heart seed at the end of autumn or beginning of winter in outdoor flowerbeds or your garden. The plant will need a slightly shaded area of your garden with moist soil.
2. Loosen soil by raking over it in the area where you plan to sow your seed.
3. Scatter the seed in the planting area.
4. Cover the seed with a thin layer of soil.

Tips & Warnings

• Keeping your Bleeding Heart well watered will help to ensure it blooms throughout the season.

• The Bleeding Heart plant is poisonous if ingested. Handling the plant causes skin irritation and allergic reaction in some people. Consider wearing gloves while handling the plant in your garden.