Did the leaves turn brown and spotty? Mine did. Not sure exactly what it was, but I discoved the bed to be full of slugs. My experience with slugs is that they eat the leaves, wonder if they were somehow eating on the roots? Anyway, I put down the slug bait and now mine is coming back.

I can't really tell you if the leaves turned brown and spotty. Most of the vine was on top of the shed and cascading down but above my head. It appeared that the vine was just turning brown and shriveling. It very well could have been slugs if they eat roots, because I had another area where I have Kong Coleus and lamium planted and something was devouring them and my husband said he found a bunch of little bitty slugs. So we put down slug killer and now they're growing just fine. We had to cut back the whole vine and now I have nothing but the other day I seen a couple small sprouts starting to grow off the old wood that was left. Maybe I'll sprinkle some slug stuff around it's base just in case.

Lora

I have a silver lace vine that's dying too. It started to grow this spring, had some flowers, then the leaves turned yellow -- not spotty -- and fell off. If you scratch the wood it's still green underneath but that's the only thing that tells you it's still alive. We planted it against a block wall with southern exposure -- perhaps too hot? We've had a long lasting heatwave here of over 100 degrees. We tried giving it more water, but no help. Don't have any slugs anywhere. Any ideas?

I know what you mean. Mine did the same thing. But mine was past the starting to grow, it was already covering the shed again this spring and had some early flowers on it and did the same thing yours did. We cut outs back all the way down but the wood is green underneath also. We had some tiny little shoots start growing at the bottom but it's not really doing anything. Our's is also planted on south side of our shed but it grew like the dickens last year. I've heard they can do sun or shade and I've seen them grow in both so I just don't know what's up with it. Mine died before it even got hot. I called my local garden center and described the problem and said there were other people in other zones that the same thing happened. They didn't really know. They thought maybe some kind of root damage or fungus. So I guess I'll just plant another. Darn it....

Lora

Really? Wow...I've heard the opposite on this forum and the perennial forum. That it was hard to kill this vine and it would grow like the dickens. But it hasn't been years...so you've had more input than I have then. Well I purchased and will try one more today. If it dies then that will be the end of Silver lace for me. I hope it was just a fluke, I really like this vine where I have it.

Lora

I have this vine in Virginia and it' weird. I planted some of it in full sun and it died. The other pots I had I put down in and old bed, in full shade, intending to dig them up later when I had more time and move them. Well, they thrive in that bed. They grow high, but, they don't flower. So I have this huge vine growing up a teepee I made out of bamboo poles and it does everything but flower. I guess I haven't had much luck with it either. I really wanted to see it flower but as this point I think I'd kill the vine if I dug it up now and tried to move it.

babywatson
It doesn't normally flower until late summer. The house down the street from me has a sliver lace growing all over their chain link fence and up onto a small gate arbor. It's been there for years and most of it's in full shade and it blooms every year for them. Is this it's first year? If so, wait until later summer and it will bloom for you.This is what mine looked like last year in September in Illinois.

Lora

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HI, I have to chime in here....I have 12 of these vines and they are indeed hardy, however, I've also had the leaves to yellow and start to drop. First, I realized that in the dry times, all they needed was water, food and compost just like most other plants. They responded well and...now..I remember to do just these things. Also, around here the japanese beetles just love these vines and I do spray, otherwise, the foliage would be mass of brown lace...I hate when that happens :):):)!! Some I do cut back in March if I have the time. Either way, I get early and late blooms on the ones not cut back, and I'm sure to get blooms on the ones that I Do trim back. After all the lessons learned, my biggest problem with these vines is the beetles and they aren't around forever.

Margaret

Once I got rid of the slugs my vine fully recovered to the point where I had to give it a haircut the other day!

I got the yellow leaves too. I sprayed it with copper fungicide. Worked great.