Take off the leaves from the bottom half of the stem cutting.Optionally, you can use a rooting hormone for improving rooting success. You'll also need to gather a container, soilless potting mix, and a plastic bag. Use sterilized pruners to take a 3- to 5-inch cutting from a healthy bleeding heart plant.The Spruce Home Improvement Review Board.Alkaloids negatively affect animals, most commonly cattle, sheep, and dogs. Although aesthetically pleasing, this plant contains soquinoline alkaloids. Bleeding Heart plants are not only toxic to humans but animals as well. Wear gloves and other protective equipment when handling. If ingested, all parts may cause stomach upset, the foliage may aggravate skin allergies.Propagate by division in early spring or after the leaves have died down.Great for edging, rock gardens, underplanting shrubs or as a ground cover.It can be grown in full sun in the coolest part of its range provided the soil is kept consistently moist. Thrives in part shade and is easily grown in fertile, humus-rich, neutral or slightly alkaline, moist, well-drained soils.Unlike Common Bleeding Hearts (Dicentra spectabilis), it will not go dormant in midsummer as long as the soil is kept moist. Recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society for its outstanding merits.A reliable performer that is excellent for edging, rock gardens or as a groundcover. Flowering will stop in the heat of the summer and may start again in late summer to early fall. Blooming from late spring to early summer, the flowers dangle gracefully above the lush foliage mound. Award-winner Dicentra formosa 'Bacchanal' (Pacific Bleeding Heart) is a spreading rhizomatous perennial adorned with a gray-green, finely divided foliage and short racemes of nodding, heart-shaped, deep crimson flowers.
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