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Blooms All SeasonBleeding Heart Burning Hearts, Dicentra 'Burning Hearts', adds color to the front of your shade border. This neat, compact dicentra blooms from mid-spring until the first frost.Dicentra 'Burning Hearts' PPAF has deep rose-red, heart-shaped blossoms that are suspended on curved stems over the feathery blue-grey foliage.Potted in your favorite container, the 10 height and 12 width plant is a great way to fill that empty shady spot in your landscape.'Burning Hearts' is more compact and longer-blooming than other bleeding hearts.Dicentra is perfect for a border or patio container, and will thrive in a partially shaded spot. This really is a shade lover, delighting in full to partial shade conditions.This plant will perform in the full sun but will tend to disappear in mid-summer when it has all the sun it can handle. It usually pops back up the following spring.Burning Hearts is is a plant for fertile but well-drained soils. It prefers consistently moist, humus-rich soils similar to a great woodland soil full of organic matter and richly fertile.The simplest way to mimic this is to add several shovels of compost around the base of the plant every spring.* Red flowers* Long bloom period* Fern-like foliage