{"id":1214,"date":"2013-05-12T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:04:29","slug":"bleeding-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Bleeding Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping the plant &#8220;Bleeding Heart&#8221; had a lovely folk tale associated with it. Sadly, it doesn&#8217;t. It should have, though, because it&#8217;s a gorgeous flower with a very romantic name.<\/p>\n<p>I plant the flowers that grew in my grandmother&#8217;s garden. Gardens have this ability to preserve so much of life. I think of families passing on their stories to the next generation, through a perennial here or a recurring annual there. In fact, in many ways, your garden may even out live you.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhuYD-DZKXWR59-n0yePvLA1i1WdzUrZbQ_T3G43_Q2bt-X80uq25TDrOFXFPb_g6HIaGLjUz-laviaTgFAyOD0VRg6IG2XlLh9a1bA5Pkmo1oBYVU9fq3l45W7m3mCp2DpzshRWA\/s320\/bleeding+heart.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhuYD-DZKXWR59-n0yePvLA1i1WdzUrZbQ_T3G43_Q2bt-X80uq25TDrOFXFPb_g6HIaGLjUz-laviaTgFAyOD0VRg6IG2XlLh9a1bA5Pkmo1oBYVU9fq3l45W7m3mCp2DpzshRWA\/s320\/bleeding+heart.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">Bleeding Heart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nWhen we bought our house 30 years ago, it had a basic garden with a red rose bush. We rearranged a lot of the garden, but kept the rose, even though it was a little out of place with the other plantings. We called it &#8220;Mrs. Wilson&#8217;s rose.&#8221; We had bought the house from Mrs. Wilson&#8217;s son about a year after she had died. Her rose lived on in the garden for many years.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgBHycGtAn2Hi1g5Q4mzH3LVnA4ZlVQkYkaJy8X42c6akKS3e1L1bOmW-Hwup_9Rv0oxNc8ZXG73GD3Xt-QK55dqtRZ6pnjk6aArTwVc61LuGoeqHvR8RUebx13dK4aJ8XFTG8sGA\/s320\/bleeding+heart+1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgBHycGtAn2Hi1g5Q4mzH3LVnA4ZlVQkYkaJy8X42c6akKS3e1L1bOmW-Hwup_9Rv0oxNc8ZXG73GD3Xt-QK55dqtRZ6pnjk6aArTwVc61LuGoeqHvR8RUebx13dK4aJ8XFTG8sGA\/s320\/bleeding+heart+1.jpg\" width=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">Bleeding Heart &#8211; open<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nAnother shot, a little closer and before I removed the stray bit of Maple tree floss from it.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiuYmjAavcsg_dpNpFmFmvBQrK38poqy8RVh0A5m9nt6t1z4bVI4vAVXCNjWoc0uy7-B7iq0oA4QUzQuunuG7W8Pyaaz_bwAPk_znTF2Zwe60XXMhNf2NZH0FVbsu-eByx-9cVrUg\/s320\/bleeding+heart+2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiuYmjAavcsg_dpNpFmFmvBQrK38poqy8RVh0A5m9nt6t1z4bVI4vAVXCNjWoc0uy7-B7iq0oA4QUzQuunuG7W8Pyaaz_bwAPk_znTF2Zwe60XXMhNf2NZH0FVbsu-eByx-9cVrUg\/s320\/bleeding+heart+2.jpg\" width=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">More Bleeding Heart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a lovely flower but a little sad when I think of all those times when hearts bleed. Alas, the stuff of life!!<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping the plant &#8220;Bleeding Heart&#8221; had a lovely folk tale associated with it. Sadly, it doesn&#8217;t. It should have, though, because it&#8217;s a gorgeous flower with a very romantic name. I plant the flowers that grew in my grandmother&#8217;s garden. Gardens have this ability to preserve so much of life. I think of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}