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By mpp26

Pretty pink- Bleeding heart - dicentra spectabilis

Very pretty perennial plant.
Pink and White Flowers in the Spring Garden - Jason Antony
Heart-shaped pink and white flowers delicately dangling from graceful arching stems of lacey foliage make Bleeding Hearts a favorite flower in the spring garden.

The distinctive heart-shaped flowers of Dicentra spectabilis have inspired a romantic tale of love and loss. Carefully separating the flower blossom, the ears of a pink rabbit, a pair of delicate pink slippers and two graceful white earrings represent the gifts brought to a beautiful princess by the handsome prince.

But spurned in his seduction of the princess, the flower stamen is shaped like the dagger with which the prince stabbed himself through the heart. His death causes the princess to realize that he was her one true love all along and she vows that every spring her heart will bleed for her lost love.


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