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I have a 2 yr. old white bleeding heart and the leaves have all turned yellow and then they turn brown, I'm wondering if this is supposed to happen. Thanks!
Yes, they are one of the first blooms of Spring and die out early. When the stalks and leaves are all yellow cut them down to the ground. The roots will send new shoots up early next Spring.
This has been a crazy weather year. My pink Bleeding Heart is still green and lush. Usually it's gone to sleep by now and I have a big, empty spot in the bed. She's 18 years old so I guess she's old enough to stay up late! Ha!
I planted 3 bulbs (bleeding Heart) each in a different location and none of them have shown a sign of growth and I did it early spring. What should I do, dig them up and replant them? Or go buy new ones assuming these ones are all dead?
They have a sort of unusual life cycle because they go dormant in the summer rather than in the winter like many plants, so if it was still in bulb form in the spring, that's probably too late for it to put out new growth for this year, it probably just stayed dormant through the summer, but hopefully it should come back and grow and bloom next year (I don't have any of these right now so I can't remember when to expect their foliage to start to show up). So assuming the bulbs haven't been munched by a critter or rotted or something I wouldn't give up on them yet.
Bleeding hearts are early spring flowering plants, they dont have a bulb but more of a soft very fragile tuber type root, they break very easy therefore dont like being disturbed at the roots, the white flowering type are more difficult to get established but when they are, they are really beautiful and delicate looking, but the res/white flowering ones are lovely too, they need a warm spot and sun for them to flower well and they die down right after flowering, once they have died down, remove the old withered foliage and top dress with some nice rich compost to protect the growing crown for next springs new growth. Slugs under the soil damage the tender new growth when it is just emerging in spring so look out for these pests. hope this helps you out a bit, good luck. WeeNel.
