Shade Gardening: spring woodland flowers, 1 by Weerobin

Weerobin wrote:
Kdfisher, I have gotten my double bloodroot from a variety of places over the years.
Seneca Hill, Edelweis, Joy Creek and Plant Delights nurseries have all carried it in the past.
Other DG'ers have complained it's fussy, but mine do fine.
We certainly have millions of native (single) bloodroot, so maybe our climate / soil is just right for it.
The clump which thrives the best for me (the one pictured above) is happy as a clam in the shade of a red maple with tons of root competition from the maple. I can't stick a trowel into the ground around it, since it's so totally root-bound. But the double bloodroot loves it there. I have a sprinkler system, so it gets watered every other day or so. But the maple roots probably keep it on the dry side.