How to Use bleeding heart in a Sentence

bleeding heart

noun
  • Pair bleeding heart with plants that fill in the summer garden, such as hosta or heuchera.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The striking shape of bleeding heart is one of the most unique in the garden, but it's not known for creating a full look.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 5 Mar. 2026
  • There are a few outliers that break this pattern, such as dianthus and bleeding heart described below.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The simple design featured a bustier top, a thigh-high hemline and a bleeding heart detail on the bodice.
    — Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
  • Like spring-blooming bulbs, this bleeding heart goes dormant in early summer when its foliage recedes.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Some excellent options include bleeding hearts, azaleas, and camellias, all of which should be in bloom through April.
    — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Growing best in part shade, bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) pairs well with tulips and daffodils.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Make sure to avoid overwatering, and keep bleeding hearts out of direct sunlight or their blooming period will end early.
    — Nishaa Sharma, The Spruce, 27 May 2026
  • Available in white, yellow, and purple-pink hues, false indigo plants produce their blooming spires in the spring at the same time as peonies and bleeding hearts.
    — Jamie McIntosh, The Spruce, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Deserving could change that, but the readers who need it most are those who would deride Vartkessian as the bloodiest of bleeding hearts.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Perennials with long bloom periods are astilbe, hosta, hellebore, coral bells, bleeding heart, and begonias.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 4 June 2026
  • Some options here include bleeding hearts, violas, and aubrieta, as well as magnolia and rhododendrons.
    — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 3 Apr. 2026
  • For example, bleeding heart and brunnera followed by azaleas and rhododendrons, Virginia sweetspire, hostas, astilbe, and finally tuberous begonias.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2026
  • Sonny feels like a departure; unlike Bernthal’s mercenaries, Sonny fumbles with his gun, has a bleeding heart, and lays his vulnerabilities bare.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Beneath the neoclassical architecture, artful pastries, and sprawling green spaces is the bleeding heart of the city—a city where the soccer games are to be wept over, the whip-quick moves of tango never miss a beat, and the sounds of sizzling asado and flowing Malbec carry late into the night.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Longtime anime watchers know all about Trigun, the sci-fi western that tore through Toonami in the ’00s and followed the wake of Vash the Stampede, a gunslinger and bleeding heart who faces off against his twin brother, Millions Knives.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2026
  • In addition to the trout lily, Georgia’s spring ephemerals include bloodroot, toothwort, harbinger of spring, wild geranium, blue cohosh, twinleaf, May-apple, Virginia bluebell, celandine poppy, Dutchman’s breeches, spring beauty, wood anemone, windflower, bleeding heart, phacelia and more.
    — Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Shade-loving plants include anthurium, astilbe, begonia, bleeding heart, bromeliad, caladiums, coleus, cranesbill, ferns, foxglove, hellebore, hostas, impatiens, Lily of the Valley, Liriope, lobelia, lungwort, moneywort, periwinkle, spiderwort, trillium, and viola.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025

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