Bleeding Heart, Lyre Flower, Lady’s Locket, Dutchman’s Breeches are popular names for the dangling flowers of this much-loved perennial. Turn the flowers upside down and they become Lady in the Bath. Graceful, elegant, exquisite, incomparable, peerless are all words that come to mind when looking at, or rather gazing dreamily, at its blooms. Native to Siberia, northern China, Korea and Japan Dicentra spectabilis and Dicentra spectabilis Alba is best grown in a lightly shaded, moisture retentive spot. Dormant during late autumn and Winter. This plant is a winner of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. Sent as a dormant plant.
The white tipped, pink lockets are held, up to a dozen or more, on arching slender stems over beautiful soft green foliage.




