Bleeding Heart – The Heart Shape Flower
A Bleeding Heart Flowers (Photo Credit: Vulkano Uwe H. Friese, Bremerhaven / CC BY-SA 1.0)
Bleeding heart is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae. These are found in Siberia, northern China, Korea and Japan.
It is valued in gardens and in floristry for its heart-shaped pink and white flowers and these are borne in spring. The common names are “Dutchman’s breeches”, “lyre flower” and “lady-in-a-bath”. These flowers are growing to 120 cm tall and 45 cm wide.
A Bleeding Heart Flower (Photo Credit: Holger Casselmann / CC BY-SA 3.0)
First plants specimens were introduced into England in the 1840s from Japan by the Scottish botanist and plant hunter Robert Fortune. In a moist and cool climate, it will grow in full sun, but in warmer and drier climates it requires some shade.
A Bleeding Heart Flowers (Photo Credit: Wildfeuer / CC BY-SA 3.0)
