Bleeding Heart

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The bleeding heart plant (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) gets its common name from its puffy, heart-shaped pink flowers that dangle from long, arching stems. Beneath the heart shape is a protruding white petal that looks like a drop—hence the “bleeding” in bleeding heart.

The bleeding heart flower’s meaning is said to be about unrequited or rejected love, as well as love and romance in general. Bleeding hearts are shade-loving woodland plants that bloom in the cool of spring. After flowering for several weeks, the plants often become ephemeral, disappearing for the rest of the summer if exposed to too much sun or heat. But the roots stay alive, and bleeding heart will come back every year—regrowing either in the fall or next spring.

Bleeding heart’s size ranges from around 1 to 3 feet high with a similar spread. The plant has a moderate growth rate, reaching its maximum size in around 60 days. Be mindful about where you plant it, as bleeding heart is toxic to people and pets.

Bleeding Heart Care

In a typical growing season, a bleeding heart plant will produce around 20 small flowers on its stems in the spring that stay in bloom for several weeks. Its foliage usually depreciates and enters dormancy in the midsummer heat. This sensitivity to heat makes establishing new plants more challenging in warmer zones than in colder areas.

In addition, the flowers are delicate and require protection from strong winds. The best place to plant a bleeding heart is in an area that has a windbreak as well as some sun protection.

Once established, it’s fairly easy to take care of a bleeding heart plant. It’s not overly prone to pests and diseases. And it has a bit of drought tolerance, though it still prefers moist soil for the healthiest growth. Plus, bleeding hearts will self-seed as long as the blooms remain on the plants. So bleeding hearts can live indefinitely in your garden, yet they don’t tend to spread uncontrollably.

Light

Bleeding heart does best in partial shade but also can handle full shade. Direct sun can cause the plant to go dormant early, cutting its blooming period short.

Soil

Bleeding heart prefers humus-rich, moist, well-draining soil with lots of organic matter. A slightly acidic to neutral soil pH is best. Prior to planting, it’s ideal to work a few inches of compost into the soil, especially if you don’t have organically rich soil.

Water

Bleeding heart likes a lightly moist soil. It doesn’t tolerate soggy or dry soils very well. Water throughout the growing season when the top inch of soil has dried out, even during summer dormancy to keep the roots hydrated. But make sure the soil doesn’t stay waterlogged, which can lead to root rot.

Temperature and Humidity

This plant’s ideal temperature is between 55-75 degrees Fahrenheit, and it has good tolerance for high humidity. As the summer heat ramps up, you’ll likely see the foliage yellowing. This is a perfectly normal sign of the plant going dormant to store its energy.

Fertilizer

Bleeding heart plants are not heavy feeders, so when to fertilize depends on the quality of your soil. If you have rich, organic soil amended every year, you likely won’t have to feed at all. If you have poor soil, you can apply an all-purpose, slow-release fertilizer in the spring. Also, as a woodland plant, bleeding heart does well with a top dressing of leaf mold.

Types of Bleeding Heart

There are several bleeding heart varieties with similar growing characteristics, including:

Lamprocapnos spectabilis ‘Alba’: Pure white flowers

Lamprocapnos spectabilis ‘Gold Heart’: Pink flowers and yellow-gold foliage

Lamprocapnos spectabilis ‘Valentine’: Bright cherry-red blooms with white tips and burgundy stems

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      1. Morning! I had a huge bleeding heart plant in VA – mostly in the shade all day and it came back year after year, each year bigger than the last. I tried planting one here but it was in the sun too much and didn’t last more than a couple of years.

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          1. The traditional dark pink and white. The one I tried here was a different type, a fern-style that was much smaller. At that time, I didn’t realize how many different kinds there were – I just wanted one like my Grandma had at her house, which was the one I planted in VA. I think it gets too hot here.

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    1. I did read that–i think before Christmas about the stomach cancer–and then things happened with hubby and it slipped my mind. but i haven’t seen him post in a awhile. I will keep him in my prayers!

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    1. It is 36 here this morning and sooooo much snow is gone now, even the huge drifts from the plows are down to almost nothing. We had a drizzly fog all day yesterday with temps above freezing, as well as light rain off and on, which melted a lot of the snow. Predictions are for almost 60 mid-week!!!

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  12. we put out these corn/apple blocks for the deer in the winter. i started noticing there are usually groups around the blocks (which sit on a wooden tray hubby made that sits on a tree stump).
    lately there is one deer, and i’m sure it’s a buck, who will not let anyone near it if he is anywhere in the vicinity. and he gets nasty–raising up to swipe at the doe with his hoof.

    one time we put the block out and he started eating it almost before i got back inside and refused to let anyone else near it. by morning, when i looked out–he was there again or still i don’t know which and the block was nearly gone!

    so I’ve taken to chasing him when i see him…lol. i will let him eat some, then i go after him. He is no longer afraid of me though…the cur. I come out of the house charging down the ramp yelling at him for being a pig and he merely saunters away. Yesterday i even stormed into the yard to chase him…that did it…he ran up the mountain a ways but waited till i went back in before he came back down.

    i merely want the others to have some too instead of this guy being a pig, but other than chasing him i see no other options.

    if anyone were watching, they’d be laughing big time

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  13. “Family Abolition” and the COVID Pandemic — Covid vaccine promoters and hateful media fractured families. Can we heal?
    IGOR CHUDOV
    FEB 3, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Many influential thought leaders are calling for “family abolition.”

    https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/family-abolition-isnt-about-ending-love-and-care-its-about-extending-it-to-everyone/

    Their vision of the future world is nicely illustrated by an important proponent of “family abolition,” Sophie Lewis. Check out this picture:

    https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/courses/new-york/what-is-family-abolition-4/

    OpenDemocracy.Net explains:

    “We all want “kinship, love, and ‘good things to eat’”. It’s just that the family as we currently know it is not necessarily the best way to satisfy those desires. More importantly, the family assumes central responsibility to provide for these needs in a society that fails to do so.

    The nuclear family does not just hold the promise of fulfilling needs of love and kinship, but as an institution it is built on intersecting racism, sexism, and homophobia. As Melinda Cooper points out, for example, welfare restructuring in the United States explicitly enforced a particular model of the married nuclear family that would exclude African-American single mothers from receiving benefits. Defending the “monogamous, heterosexual, many-children family” is therefore not a neutral act of defending the right to a safe and cozy home but is more often than not tied up in other conservative political goals.”

    The above might sound strange to my readers. Are families inherently “homophobic?” Is a way for people to live monogamously and procreate “exclusionary?” How are families, which include members of all genders, “sexist?”

    Families are not exclusive to humans: many mammals (which all breastfeed their babies) form families as a matter of routine. Consider this beaver family:

    The above-pictured beavers are not ideological. They are doing what comes naturally: making, breastfeeding and bringing up babies and building dams. Beavers thrive by creating complex river flow control systems as the necessary building skills are passed down the generations, as this amazing video shows:

    Such advanced skills would be impossible for the little beaver babies to learn outside of nurturing but demanding families that protect them and teach them to build dams….”

    Pandemic Puts “Family Abolition” in Overdrive — Many of us might dismiss “family abolition” outright as a fringe idea occupying only a few deranged minds. While that would be a partly correct characterization, be aware that the pandemic put “family abolitionists” in overdrive….”

    https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/family-abolition-and-the-covid-pandemic

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  15. Sunday, February 4, 2024
    SHOCKER! (I cannot confirm this, but most here wouldn’t doubt a word of it). “I’ve been trying to find more information about this report below, but like the lightly reported bombing of “targets” in Syria yesterday, info has been slow coming forthwith (imagine the MSM keeping Americans in the dark while flooding their minds with meaningless shit like Taylor Swift). I know that I do not have to tell most who visit here, but I would STAY AWAY FROM THE BORDER till this settles.”

    Lance Wallnau
    @lancewallnau
    “I just received this:

    Alert – Major fight in the NSA:

    Biden has ordered that facial recognition of Americans all along the border with Mexico be collected and stored because “white racists are going to attack migrants and border patrol.” Leaders at NSA as of one hour ago are refusing the orders! This is massive courage on the part of these individuals.

    Border patrol agents are leaking that a false terrorist activity is planned for tomorrow. Border agents are working with Tx to diffuse this criminal act by the Biden administration. A dozen members of liberal NGOs have already been arrested dressed as Trump supporters. These have been caught after running license plates and identifying them. These liberals have been caught with machine guns.

    Border Patrol tipped off the TX law enforcement last Friday. Proud of the Officers at Fort Meade whom God has placed there to oppose this illegal spying on Citizens. Biden wanted a dragnet like what was done on J6.

    The NSA meeting this morning was VERY heated (started 7:30am today). FBI memo leaked yesterday to TX police at about 4:40pm framing the “planned assault by two “racists.” Likely to be persons under government-run psychiatric care and on psychotropic medicine.

    Tx will be on guard through next Monday.
    6:35 PM · Feb 2, 2024 · 68.3K Views

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  19. he has nothing to do with the rnc–that’s glaringly obvious from the disastrous way it’s run

    FTA
    NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump issued a warning to the Republican National Committee’s chairwoman in an interview aired Sunday, saying when asked about her that there would “probably be some changes made.”

    Trump had been asked by Fox News host Maria Bartiromo about Ronna McDaniel, who has been facing withering attacks from some Trump allies, including the group Turning Point, which was part of an unsuccessful effort to oust her last year.

    “I think she did great when she ran Michigan for me. I think she did OK, initially, in the RNC. I would say right now, there’ll probably be some changes made,” Trump said on FOX News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures.

    The RNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Trump was also pressed on the party’s finances following campaign disclosures released this week that showed the RNC had just $8 million in the bank and $1 million in debt.

    “So I have a lot of money,” Trump said in the interview that aired Sunday, arguing that “people are not looking at the RNC. They want changes.”

    “You have to understand, I have nothing to do with the RNC. I’m separate,” he added.

    https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-ll-probably-changes-174938071.html

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      1. He was a rock “musician,” with a band called “The Spooky Kids.” Has a history of molestation, Satan worship and anti-Christian messages. IOW, a nutjob freak! I certainly never listened to any of his “music!”

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  37. just got off the phone with our son…he’s making furniture in his spare time–it looks awesome from the pictures he posts on fb–hubby shows me–i don’t fb.

    anyway, the puppy is still ringing the bell signaling she has to pee or poop and then runs and finds a place to do it…LOL…instead of waiting for them to take her out.
    I was laughing hysterically while he was talking about it…couldn’t help myself

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    1. They should maybe use the upcoming warmer weather to move the bell near an open door or even outside leaving the door open, if they have a way to do that. They need to get her to associate the outdoors with peeing/pooping. Don’t reward her unless she goes outside and express disappointment when she goes inside. Is she sensitive to scolding or is she one of those that are brain-dead when it comes to that?

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  38. “Sylvester Stallone Honors Late ‘Rocky’ Co-star”
    By truenewstoday1
    February 4, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Hollywood is mourning the loss of the legendary actor Carl Weathers, best known for his iconic role as Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” series. Weathers passed away peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, February 1, at the age of 76, leaving behind a legacy that touched the hearts of many. Tributes have poured in from fellow actors, including Sylvester Stallone, his longtime friend and co-star, as well as Dolph Lundgren and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Stallone’s Emotional Tribute — Sylvester Stallone, who shared a close bond with Weathers both on and off-screen, took to social media to express his grief and pay tribute to the late actor. Standing in front of a painting depicting a memorable fight between their characters Rocky and Creed, Stallone shared a heartfelt message, saying, “We lost a legend yesterday. My life was forever changed for the better the day I met Carl Weathers. Rest in power and keep punching.”

    Stallone went on to credit Weathers for his integral role in his success, acknowledging the greatness he saw in him from the moment they met. Reflecting on their collaboration in the “Rocky” series, Stallone praised Weathers for his voice, size, power, athletic ability, and, most importantly, his heart and soul. The emotional tribute ended with Stallone reminiscing about one of the last moments they shared in the ring and declaring, “He was magic. And I was so fortunate to be part of his life. So Apollo, keep punching.”

    Dolph Lundgren’s Fond Memories — Dolph Lundgren, who starred alongside Weathers in “Rocky IV,” shared his sadness at the news of Weathers’ passing. In an Instagram post, Lundgren described Weathers as a great actor, a terrific athlete, and a good friend. He reminisced about the special charm that Weathers, much like his on-screen character Apollo Creed, possessed and how it always brought a smile to people’s faces. The post featured a side-by-side photo of the two during the making of “Rocky IV” and a modern-day portrait, symbolizing the enduring friendship between the two.

    Schwarzenegger’s Tribute to a Legend — Arnold Schwarzenegger, another Hollywood icon who worked closely with Weathers in the film “Predator,” honored his late co-star with a heartfelt post on Instagram. Schwarzenegger acknowledged Weathers as an extraordinary athlete, a fantastic actor, and a great person. Describing the joy of working with Weathers on and off the set, Schwarzenegger shared that every minute spent with him was pure joy. The post included a slideshow of photos capturing their camaraderie during the making of “Predator,” and Schwarzenegger concluded by expressing his thoughts and condolences to Weathers’ family.

    Legacy Beyond “Rocky” — Carl Weathers’ impact on the entertainment industry extended beyond his portrayal of Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” series. Born in New Orleans in 1948, Weathers initially pursued a professional football career before transitioning to acting. He played college football at San Diego State University, showcasing his athletic prowess.

    Weathers’ filmography includes leading roles in action movies such as “Action Jackson” (1988) and “Hurricane Smith” (1992). He also starred as Chubbs Peterson in the comedy classic “Happy Gilmore” (1996), alongside Adam Sandler. Weathers’ diverse career showcased his versatility as an actor.

    In recent years, Carl Weathers gained new prominence as Greef Karga in the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian.” His Emmy-nominated performance and directorial contributions to the show demonstrated his enduring talent.”

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  40. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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