Bleeding hearts (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) have some of the most striking flowers of any spring-blooming plant. Long strings of puffy, heart-shaped blooms—in shades from white, to pink, to red—dangle ...

A woman with a bucket crouching in a garden, weeding a garden bed. - Golero/Getty Images Bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis) is a harbinger of the summer to come. In late spring, they fill gardens ...

Do you know why the flower went to the dentist? It needed a root canal. Flowers don’t need dentists, of course, but humans do come in handy for other flower tasks. For example, most perennials thrive ...

* What it is: Fringe-leaf or “wild” bleeding heart (a.k.a. fringed or cut-leaf bleeding heart) is a shade-preferring, spring-blooming perennial that, although native to Pennsylvania and the eastern ...