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Bleeding Hearts, Corydalis, and Their Relatives

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This is a highly detailed and informative guide to the bleeding hearts and their relatives. As one of the editorial reviews states, it may be way more than the average home gardener cares to know, but for anyone looking for a serious treatment of the identification, history and care of these beauties, it's a great guide. It includes an identification key to help parse out which specific type of flower you have (just because a garden store says something is a Dicentra doesn't necessarily mean it is). The identification key assumes you understand the terms used, but there are plenty of guides on the internet that have pictures of what a basal or bipinnate leaf is, for example. I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to know more about this particular group of flowers, and the pictures alone are enough to brighten up anyone's mood. Like many gardening books, it has pretty pictures, but unlike many gardening books, it's actually a serious horticultural text, the best of both worlds in my opinion.