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Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart "Alba"
Dicentra spectabilis
2.74€
Ex Tax: 2.25€
Ex Tax: 2.25€
Common Bleedinghearts "Alba" - Dicentra spectabilis.
An unusually elegant perennial plant from the Papaveraceae family, forming a sprawling openwork bush up to 80 cm high.
Origin: Siberia, China and Korea.
Unusual "broken hearts with a" dripping tear "at the tip of its flowers on thin pendant legs tremble at the slightest movement over a lacy, bluish-green cloud of heavily dissected leaves.
Inflorescences are branched, arcuately curved. White flowers begin to bloom at the end of May, and flowering lasts about 35-40 days, quite abundant.
At this time, the plant is unusually decorative. At the end of June, flowering stops.
It is very winter-hardy (Z4 - Z8) and can grow in one place for several years.
Flowering: May - June (in the second or third year from sowing).
Flowering plant height: 80 cm.
Charming pink heart-shaped flowers hang beautifully from curved stems. It is used for group plantings of rock gardens, shady mixborders. Excellent in cut.
Agrotechnics.
Sowing: February - March for seedlings. Seeds require preliminary scarification and stratification. Before sowing, soak the seeds in a damp cloth for a day, then break the seed coat (prick or rub with sandpaper).
Seeds are placed on the surface of moist compost, lightly sprinkled with soil, covered with glass or film, transferred to + 5 ° C (in the refrigerator) for 2-3 weeks. Then placed in +18+20°C for germination. It is necessary to monitor the humidity of crops by airing.
After the appearance of two pairs of true leaves, the seedlings dive into separate containers. Plants are planted in a permanent place in the phase of 5-6 true leaves, maintaining a distance between plants of 60-70 cm.
Prefers slightly shaded places and relatively rich, light soils. Water dicentra so that the soil remains constantly moist. Loosening, weeding and top dressing are necessary.
An unusually elegant perennial plant from the Papaveraceae family, forming a sprawling openwork bush up to 80 cm high.
Origin: Siberia, China and Korea.
Unusual "broken hearts with a" dripping tear "at the tip of its flowers on thin pendant legs tremble at the slightest movement over a lacy, bluish-green cloud of heavily dissected leaves.
Inflorescences are branched, arcuately curved. White flowers begin to bloom at the end of May, and flowering lasts about 35-40 days, quite abundant.
At this time, the plant is unusually decorative. At the end of June, flowering stops.
It is very winter-hardy (Z4 - Z8) and can grow in one place for several years.
Flowering: May - June (in the second or third year from sowing).
Flowering plant height: 80 cm.
Charming pink heart-shaped flowers hang beautifully from curved stems. It is used for group plantings of rock gardens, shady mixborders. Excellent in cut.
Agrotechnics.
Sowing: February - March for seedlings. Seeds require preliminary scarification and stratification. Before sowing, soak the seeds in a damp cloth for a day, then break the seed coat (prick or rub with sandpaper).
Seeds are placed on the surface of moist compost, lightly sprinkled with soil, covered with glass or film, transferred to + 5 ° C (in the refrigerator) for 2-3 weeks. Then placed in +18+20°C for germination. It is necessary to monitor the humidity of crops by airing.
After the appearance of two pairs of true leaves, the seedlings dive into separate containers. Plants are planted in a permanent place in the phase of 5-6 true leaves, maintaining a distance between plants of 60-70 cm.
Prefers slightly shaded places and relatively rich, light soils. Water dicentra so that the soil remains constantly moist. Loosening, weeding and top dressing are necessary.
Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart White. Bot. syn.: Diclytra spectabilis D.C.
Here is the French legend about the plant:
A young French woman, Jeannette, went to the forest to pick berries and got lost. Wherever she goes, there is no path. Wherever he looks, the forest stands like a wall. The girl was frightened and began to call for help.
For a long time Jeanette wandered and called, but only an echo answered her, and the crowns of the trees sympathized with grief with deep sighs. Exhausted at the end Jeannette, sank down on a fallen tree and dozed off. She didn’t know how long she slept, but she woke up because someone licked her on the cheek. The girl shuddered, opened her eyes and saw a hunting dog, and nearby - a young rider.
"Get in the saddle!" the young man invited.
"And don't delay, or we won't be out of the thicket until dawn."
How long, how short was their way, Jeannette did not remember, but only remembered how tightly the young man held her in warm embraces ... And when they were near the outskirts, the young man took the girl off the saddle and kissed her passionately goodbye.
Jeannette firmly remembered her first kiss, and she had a desire to see the young man again, but he did not appear. He did not appear on the third or fourth day. On the fifth, a wealthy cavalcade rode through the village, a rider familiar to Jeannette flaunted in front on a horse, and next to him was a happy blond girl ...
Jeannette swayed, blood hit her face, and her heart suddenly sprouted a dark red flower.
Since then, the French call the flower "Zhannette's heart", the Germans - "flower of the heart", and Russians and Estonians, mindful of unrequited love, - "broken heart".
