When I bought this house in 1987, the realtor gave me a gift of three large bleeding heart plants. They went into a shady corner, but eventually neighbor cats that liked to dig there and overgrowing junipers eliminated most of the growth. I found a few leaves still growing under the juniper today and dug what is left of the bleeding heart out of that location. Hopefully what little was left of the root will survive in its new location.

Mild in comparison to the rest of the country, but I'm not yet used to this much heat.


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