Bleeding Heart Companion Plants: Shade Fillers That Cover the Gap When It Goes Dormant in July
Bleeding heart is the garden’s most reliable spring performer and its most dramatic disappearing act. Lamprocapnos spectabilis arches into bloom by late April — pink or white heart-shaped flowers dangling from elegant curved stems, three feet tall and impossible to ignore. By July, without warning, the whole plant is gone. Every stem yellows and retreats underground, leaving a bare patch …