Plant Type

Perennial

 

Height Range

Under 1', 1-3'

 

Flower Color

Pink

 

Flower Season

Spring

 

Leaf Color

Green, Blue Green, Grey Green

 

Bark Color

n/a

 

Fruit Color

n/a

 

Fruit Season

n/a

Sun

Half, Shade

 

Water

Medium, Extra in Summer

 

Growth Rate

Moderate

 

Soil Type

Loam

 

Soil Condition

Average, Rich, Well-drained

 

Soil pH

Acid, Neutral

 

Adverse Factors

n/a

Design Styles

English Cottage, Formal, Japanese, Woodland

 

Accenting Features

n/a

 

Seasonal Interest

Spring, Summer

 

Location Uses

Perennial Border, Raised Planter

 

Special Uses

Container, Cut Flowers, Small Spaces

 

Attracts Wildlife

n/a

'Luxuriant' is a cultivar of fern-leaf dicentra. It has the same, charming, May-time heart-shaped flowers of soft pink, arrayed along a stem like so much elfin laundry. The foliage is a blue-green to grey green, and is deeply toothed and ferny and forms a mound about 12 to 18 inches tall and wide. But after flowering, unlike some bleeding heart, this foliage remains attractive all summer long, and is a lovely contrast to other shady border denizens like hosta, bergenia, and seslaria.

Grow in well drained, loamy soil in part to full shade. It will do fine with morning or late day sun, but mid day is too much, and will likely scorch the foliage. Does well in dry shade sites, but will also tolerate regular watering. Deadhead spent flowers, and cut back old foliage in late winter to early spring as new growth emerges.