Bleeding Heart

[briar_witch]

Does anyone here have any experience with growing the bleeding heart plant? Are they invasive and hard to get rid of? How shady is too shady for them? I've done some googling already, but am hoping for some added, more concise input from you folks

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[ladyapple27]

I have bleeding hearts in 3/4 shade and partial sun. They do nicely. I wouldn't care if my bleeding hearts got as large as some of the ones described above.

[briar_witch]

I like that you gave a percentage, it gives me a good idea of how much shade they may do well in. The area I'll be putting them in is fairly heavily shaded, but at least your percentage gives me a certain baseline to go from.

[low_delta]

The shadier they get, the longer they last before dying off for the year. I have some in full sun, and they don't bloom much, and die off early. I have another that only gets a tiny bit of sun around sunset. It blooms reasonably well, but I'm always tempted to cut it down before it goes dormant, just to get it over with.

[briar_witch]

Mine should bloom for a very long time then! :P

[dreamingbear]

Mine only gets morning sun, once the sun crests the building opposite and by noon it's in the shade again.