Re: my new plants
Marie Yacuzzo wrote:
>
> Is this what is also called "old-fashioned" bleeding heart? I have what
> sounds like the plant that you just described, and I have moved it from spot
> to spot in my yard, but it is not doing very well (hardly blooms and looks
> kind of sick). A friend has the same plant, and it looks very healthy, and
> is bushy and full of blooms.
My garden here is very fertile (though very small) (I'm in a suburb of
London - the old original London, that is). I have a rich loam
overlying chalky clay which will grow anything that can stand lime.
Dicentra spectabilis does well, but I struggle to get Dicentra eximia to
prosper, just as Marie reports.
However, in a previous garden on thin and fiercely acid sand - I had to
lime the lawn to grow decent grass - dicentra eximia thrived in sun or
shade, and was one of the few plants that really did well in those very
harsh conditions. It could be, therefore, that it doesn't like alkaline
soils. Does that fit in with anyone else's experience? I'd be
interested to know.
Love to all Cliff
(London, UK)
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