How does Foam Flower bloom together with Bleeding Heart or Dicentra?

I have heard that if you plant these two together that they look very well together, so why is this?





and do they bloom together or does one bloom after the other?





how long and rough which times do they bloom ?





thanks for your answers!

How does Foam Flower bloom together with Bleeding Heart or Dicentra?
Bleeding Heart (Dicentra) %26amp; Foam Flower (Tiarella cordifolia Saxifragaceae) would grow well together. They both like shady areas %26amp; soil enriched with compost.





Bleeding Heart can bloom as early as late March. The common bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis) goes dormant after blooming, but the Fringed Bleeding Heart (Dicentra eximia) such as 'King of Hearts' ...blooms from early spring to frost, making it one of the longest-blooming perennials in the garden.


http://www.mrgrow.com/plant/may.htm


http://www.twofrog.com/dicentra.html


http://www.waltersgardens.com/index.cfm?...





The Fringed Bleeding Heart would be the best Dicentra to plant together with Foam Flower because it blooms all summer. Like the Foam Flower, it is most at home in woodland settings. It likes rich, loose soil that is evenly moist but also well-drained. At planting time, add lots of compost, humus, or peat moss to the soil to enhance its water retention capabilities. It should do well if you mulch it %26amp; make sure it doesn't dry out.


http://www.serve.com/pernell/april292007...





Foam Flowers blooms April - June %26amp; is a popular choice for ground cover in shade gardens.The shallow root system of this plant also makes a happy companion of deep rooted natives such as Solomon's Seal and Cardinal Flowers.


http://ncnatural.com/wildflwr/foamf.html





The white flowers of the Foam Flower contrasts %26amp; blends beautifully with the bright rose-red, heart-shaped flowers of the Bleeding Heart. http://daviswiki.org/Foam_Flower


http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/gall...





Good Luck! Hope this is helpful.
Reply:Bleeding heart comes in a couple of different varieties, the old fashioned, or Spectabilis, comes up in the spring, blooms, and the plant is completely gone dormant by the first of June. The species type, dicentra exima, or everblooming, is shorter, the flowers are pretty but not as spectacular, but will bloom for a longer period of time, if the summer is mild, clear into June. In hot areas it does go dormant also. Foam flower likes the same kind of garden soil and sun (light shade) requirements, and is beautiful with bleeding heart and hostas. I plant them all together, and when the dicentras go dormant, the hostas fill in the space and carry on with bloom clear into fall, depending on the varieties.





The tiarella, or foam flower, blooms in early summer. I love the ones that are hybridized with the huechera, or coral bells. They are called heucherella, and come in lots of soft pink colors. They all fit well with hostas, the many colors of coral bells, ferns and astilbes for a season long of color and blooms. Other plants in my shady bed are hardy begonias, toad lilies and various gingers. I have all sorts of daffodills and crocus planted in with them to bloom early, before the perennials come up, and at the back of the garden is a single Nicotiana, Only the Lonely, that blooms all summer with loads of white flowers and scents the whole yard in the evening.





I fill in empty spaces with begonias or dwarf impatiens for extra color.