Which one is a Bleeding Heart? What's the other one?

[wcrossman]

I planted three Bleeding Hearts last year. In the location, I have three plants coming up. Two of the first:

[img]https://img693.imageshack.us/img693/6594/mystery2e.jpg[/img]


One of the other:

[img]https://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9074/mystery1r.jpg[/img]


I think the first is a Bleeding Heart and the second is ???

[Susan W]

Do you have coneflower (purple or white) aka echinacea also in the area? That's what the 1st one looks like.
Bleeding heart , and there are several varieties have a more delicate and fringed leave.
I wouldn't have those to sharing a bed. Well, coneflower prefers sun, well drained meadow type. Bleeding heart partial shade more humusy moist.

Hope this helps

[wcrossman]

They could be coneflower. Honestly, what happened last year is I tried a lot of seeds and didn't have much success. I thought the Bleeding Hearts came up, but maybe they were coneflower.

I also know I have to switch things around. I have a butterfly bush in shade and what I thought were Bleeding Hearts in sun. The exact opposite of what you're supposed to do.

To add complications, my wife decided to let a morning glory spread over the bed last year since my seed starting went so poorly. Now I have morning glory sprouts all over the place. Looks like weed block and mulch are my only answers.

Thanks again. So you think #1 is coneflower and #2 is ??? a weed?

[Susan W]

#1 looks like coneflower, #2 may also be a variety of same. I suggest having both in a sunny area and see how they grow!

[wcrossman]

Kudos to the posters who identified them as coneflowers. Here are the pictures to prove it...

[img]https://img828.imageshack.us/img828/9846/coneflower1.jpg[/img] [img]https://img840.imageshack.us/img840/2563/coneflower2.jpg[/img]