Dicentra formosa 'Luxuriant' ~ Luxuriant Bleeding Heart sustainable-garden IMAGES: Photoset by OSU Landscape

IMAGES: Photoset by OSU Landscape Plants

The densely packed lacecap flowers bloom color that depends on the soil PH -acidic soils give the signature raspberry red while alkaline soils produce blue-purple flowers

Image: Bouba

Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea is a deciduous shrub that gains a cascading habit under the weight of its flowers that persist until frost

Thrives best in wet

Dicentra formosa 'Luxuriant' ~ Luxuriant Bleeding Heart sustainable-garden IMAGES: Photoset by OSU LandscapeLuxuriant Bleeding Heart is a compact herbaceous perennial with deeply cut blue green leaves resembling ferns. Nodding cherry red buds that open to dark reddish pink heart shaped flowers with protruding inner petals bloom on long leaning stems in late spring and continues into summer if the summer is cool or stops and rebloom from late summer into fall. Flowers best in part shade and consistently moist rich well drained acidic soils. Type: Perennial