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Gardeners all over the world who are really good at gardening use these same methods. The famous gardener, Gertrude Jekyll, grew ephemerals and called them “contrivances.” She used them as replacements for fading plants and would plant them to hide the fading yellow leaves of some other plant that had finished blooming. Why grow them you may ask? They are so beautiful and are worth the effort, even if only for a very short while. Plants such as columbines, poppies, English daisies ( bellis perennis), and ranunculus are all considered to be ephemeral plants.

They are shade loving plants that love to grow near a pond in rich soil. They send up a burst of nickel-sized yellow flowers, but are also available in white, and occasionally pink shades.

This is a low growing perennial with a rosette of veiny leaves. There is the standard rose and white ones, all white ones, and red ones called "burning hearts."Īnother beautiful ephemeral plant is spring primroses. There are many types of bleeding hearts available locally and mail order. But when it blooms, oh my!! It is an amazing sight to round the corner into my shade garden and see the white bleeding hearts hanging perfectly and dangling from a delicate stem. This plant is very happy in zones 3 through 9, and the plant blooms only once. I use 1/3 cottonseed meal and 1/3 10-10-10 fertilizer with trace elements.

Bleeding hearts will benefit from the perennial feed formula that I use each spring. They are shade plants, so remember that when planting them. They come up each spring and show us their gorgeous flowers and then seem to fade away. Some of my all-time favorite ephemerals bleeding hearts, primroses, columbines, English daisies, ranunculus, spring anemones, and Virginia bluebells.īleeding hearts are a beautiful example of an ephemeral plant. Each year, we all should try a couple of new plants to grow and evaluate. There are several excellent qualities of ephemerals, and I hope you will consider planting a few in your garden.