I have mine between Hostas and Ferns mostly. Up here, the hostas and ferns leaf out fairly late in the Spring and can take over from the Bleeding Hearts quite nicely. For me, right now in the garden, Bleeding Hearts are in full bloom and hostas/ferns have popped out of the ground but have yet to completely unfurl and stretch out. The timing is almost perfect :) Here is a link that might be useful: Mad Dogs and Englishmen

babelsrus, is this different than how this plant behaves most years? You said tomato next to it, which leads me to believe its in quite a bit of sun... Typically dicentra will go dormant after blooming, in summer with the heat - have you had an unusually warm stretch of weather, know it's been in the upper 80's consistently near my nieces home in Durham NC. I'd find early June a bit early for summer dormancy here, but we've had no heat that would count...I can usually plan on mine being gone (that's for the season, not permanently gone) by late July in this cool summer Z8. I don't think I'd spray, but would clean up any leaves or stems if it completely yellows and dies back.

Hello, I'm new to this forum. I live in Melbourne, Australia. Around the beginning of this year (which is end of Summer), I've acquired a bleeding heart vine from ebay. it was a tiny healthy rooted plant and then it grew abit and shoot out many new leaves. However now that we are approaching winter and the temperature outside has dropped to zero degrees (or sometime even below zero degrees) overnight in the odd occassions, I've decided to move my bleeding heart vine indoor near the windor (north facing - I think) where it gets morning sun light. However I notice that it stops shooting new leaves and also the old leaves are dropping. Now it is almost to a bare branch, althought I can see some leaves are starting to grow on the top branch.. but plant still look quite bare. Is this normal? Will the plant come back to live in spring or summer? As I didn't even get the chance to see it in bloom, I really hope it can make it through the cold winter, although we have the heaters on inside when it gets really cold anyway. I would appreciate if anyone have any tips on how to keep this plant alive.

No, lizards are carnivores, but I'm glad you brought them up. They eat about any little bug or critter that will fit in their mouth, as long as they see it move, they will try to eat it. They're one of the good guys, and a reason not to spray, probably at all, but definitely not 'blindly' without knowing who the culprit is. It would be a shame to hurt the lizards (anoles?) who are doing what they can to keep pests off of the plants. They eat anything from fruit flies to house flies, moths, mosquitoes, whiteflies, earwigs, pill bugs, they are "on our side." After spending quite a lot of time observing them, I often think we'd be up to our ankles in just house flies if it wasn't for them, then up to our butts in moths (which are caterpillars for part of their life) on top of that. If you do feel like you need to spray something, please 'molest' the plants a bit first, to scare away any anoles. Move the stems around a bit, ruffle the leaves with your hands, they will freak out and run away somewhere else. Unfortunately, the anole I saw try to eat an army worm didn't seem interested. The last worm I found, I put it in the middle of the porch and sat down to watch. When it started moving, sure enough, an anole ran over and grabbed it. He held it in his mouth for a few seconds, ran a few steps, and spit it back out. (So I flung the army worm into the lawn, where it's welcome to chew on grass if it wants to, but hopefully a bird ate it.) BUT, after it turns into a moth, it's on the menu, the small enough ones anyway. Took a couple pics just now, this is an anole poo: Caterpillar poo (which can be smaller or bigger than this, depending on the size of the caterpillar. Most start out almost microscopically small, then get MUCH bigger.) Looking above the poo can be a way to find them. I don't see anything that looks like anole or caterpillar poo in those pics. The leaves look like they are damaged rather than that there is something on them, to my bi-focal'ed eyes. Could be edema, or could just be the first chew marks of really tiny caterpillars. If the poo gets rained on, or just wet by dew, it can cause spots like that on leaves also. Too much rain here has caused a lot of plants to look pretty sad by now, when they should be in their prime. Sounds like your plant is battling that also. On the positive side, chewing this year shouldn't affect the plant for next year, plants are made to deal with this, but I share your frustration and also wish I was more talented finding these things. They (or some other kind of caterpillar) have eaten every leaf off of some plants while I was stuck inside because of rain. There's some hilarious irony though. I finally got a passion vine going great this year, which I planted for the specific purpose of being food for gulf fritillary butterfly caterpillars...