Bleeding Heart (Dicentra) — Flowers
Dicentra
Sun or part shade, moderate watering — hardy through cold winters.
- Plant out
- Mar
- In flower
- May, Jun
- Sun
- Part sun
- Water
- Medium
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Hardiness
- H5
- Season
- spring,summer
- Height
- 10–50 cm
- Spacing
- 100 cm
- Pets
- Toxic to pets
Growing notes
Grows to 0.1-0.5 metres. Space about 50-100cm apart. In flower May-Jun.
Toxic to pets
Every part of bleeding heart, flowers, leaves, roots, seeds and stems, is poisonous if eaten: it can cause vomiting, diarrhoea, trembling, staggering, convulsions and laboured breathing in a person or a pet, and repeated skin contact with the sap can irritate. Keep children and pets from picking or chewing it and wear gloves when cutting it back. Get medical advice if a person has swallowed any, and contact a vet if an animal has.
→ NHS 111 for a person; your vet or the Animal PoisonLine for an animal