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Old 17-04-2011, 11:45 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Bleeding heart that never flowers?!

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:10:53 +0000, amjustagirl
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;918079 Wrote:
amjustagirl writes:
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Hi all,
I planted one of these 'Taylors Dicentra Spectabilis 'Bleeding Heart'
Bulbs - Specialist Bulbs - Dobbies.com' ('Taylors Dicentra Spectabilis
'Bleeding Heart' Bulbs - Specialist Bulbs - Dobbies.com'
(
http://tinyurl.com/3l8he5e))
about 2 years ago now and every year i never get any flowers just the
green leaves?! Can anyone suggest the problem here? Its planted in our
border in semi-shade. Thanks Ali-

Ours bloom profusely every year.

New Jersey USA, semi-shade.

Also new plants spring up around the yard every year or so.

They aren't blooming yet. A week or 2 more.

If you have a full bushy plant 2 feet tall, I'd expect blooms.



hmm its only a foot tall just measured it!


Have patience, it will bloom shortly. Mine starts to bloom here in
the northern Castskills once there's substantial foliage... it's just
beginning to send up shoots now, but once it gets going with warmer
weather it will grow fast. Mine will begin to bloom after the first
week in May... precisely on the 14th my resident hummers will arrive,
that morning I put out the feeder and as usual they will say hello by
tapping on my back window by about 2 PM. Yup, just checked, my
bleeding hearts are about 10" tall now... no blooms yet, will be about
three more weeks.