Bleeding Hearts

[altivo]

Bleeding Hearts
Originally uploaded by Altivo

I've been wanting to get some photos of the spring flowers around here, and even though it was kind of overcast this afternoon, I did that. You can view the whole series by clicking on this photo, and then proceeding to the next, and the next, until you reach the end. There are eight selected snaps.

Bleeding Hearts is an old fashioned garden flower, perennial, that produces long strands of little pink hearts in May. Gary likes them and has two very nice specimens going. Our planting style is what is sometimes called "naturalized," in which the cultivated plants are blended right into the natural environment rather than being placed in formal beds.

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[kint.livejournal.com]

My mom loves bleeding hearts and I, therefore, love bleeding hearts

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I like them because they just happen. One day there are only leaves there, and then suddenly all those strings of pink hearts appear. They last a while too. Far from the first flowers of spring, but they are the first pink ones here and one of the first to emerge after the many daffodils.

[vimsig.livejournal.com]

I love your photos - interesting about the wild cherry as I am about to transplant some saplings into a hedge along the north end today Those bleeding hearts we know as lieutenant's heart and there is a more delicate sort called ensign's heart which I will post a piccie of once I have had some more coffee. It's a cool day again today but no repeat of the overnight frost, thank goodness.

All my work today will be accompanied by Seth Lerer's History of the English Language audio package which I strongly recommend to you. 36 lectures of 30-40 minute duration and each one is captivating.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I think I've heard some of that set of lectures. A few years ago I was working on a piece at a friend's weaving studio, as she has a wide countermarche loom that she wasn't using at the time and agreed to let me try it. She was listening to those lectures, I'm pretty sure. It's a very interesting subject, I agree. I had several graduate level courses on it, both from the literary and the linguistic point of view.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

While the picture is awesome and the flower is
honestly very pretty...

Why do I find you growing "Bleeding Hearts" ironic?

^_^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

They have other names. That's just the one Gary uses.

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

Know anyone who refers to tomatoes as "wolfberries?" I think that's how Europeans referred to them because they thought they were poisonous.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Nope. That's one I've never heard. They were called "love apples" though.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

What nice flowers, I've seen purple sort of ones I think around here. But those look very nice.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

They last a long time too. That plant still looks pretty much like the photo even today.