Dicentra spectabilis Alba

Award-Winning Cottage Garden Favourite With Heart-Shaped Blooms, Graceful Arches, And Fresh Spring Displays
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Key Features

  • Pure white, heart-shaped blooms on gracefully arching stems, creating a soft and striking spring feature in the garden
  • A compact, elegant perennial that suits shady borders, underplanting or pots where other flowers may struggle to shine
  • Returns reliably each spring, gradually growing stronger and fuller every year for long-lasting garden value
  • Fully hardy and incredibly low maintenance, with no pruning or fuss required. A brilliant choice for time-pressed gardeners
  • Pairs beautifully with cottage-style planting, roses or ferns, adding contrast, texture and gentle movement to spring displays
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Description

Few plants capture the imagination like Dicentra spectabilis 'Alba'. With pure white, heart-shaped flowers and arching sprays of elegant blooms, it’s a strikingly beautiful perennial that brings both charm and freshness to spring planting schemes.

From late spring, 'Bleeding Heart' boasts graceful stems arching outward, each one dripping with rows of pearly heart-shaped flowers, finished with a delicate teardrop tip. Soft, romantic and completely captivating, the perfect way to bring light and movement to shadier parts of the garden.

Plant 'Alba' near the front of partially shaded borders or under taller shrubs, where its clean white blooms really shine. It also works brilliantly in cottage garden schemes, softening edges and pairing beautifully with early-flowering roses or ferns. And because it's compact and tidy, it's ideal for large pots too.

This is one of those perennials that looks dainty but is deceptively tough. It's fully winter hardy and easy to grow. After its flowering display finishes in early summer, the foliage naturally dies back underground, before returning again the following spring, with an even stronger show.

Top Tips
As 'Alba' falls dormant in summer, it's best to plant them among other plants which will take over as the plants retreat underground.
Care Information
  • Best grown in fertile, moist but well-drained soil in a semi-shaded position, avoiding exposed locations. Will grow perfectly well in a sunny border, you will just need to makre sure that it is kept watered regularly to prevent scorch.
  • Plants may need staking to support the branches.
  • As the plant dies back over summer, the leaved will yellow and the stems wither - at this point you can cut them down to ground level, and you may get a second flush of feathery green leaves.
  • When new growth emerges in spring, add a slow-release fertiliser to the soil to encourage longer blooming.
Delivery Information

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Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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