This one has been doing a good impersonation of being a graveyard. Leaves have been steadily dropping off, and the weeds have been coming it. I’m not quite prepared to call it dead, but since planting it in November, it’s at the very least gone into shock.
Here’s the starting point:
While cleaning, I pruned one of the branches back, and found a bit of sapwood still green. So maybe this will come back in the spring?
I’m not ready to mulch it yet, so let’s see what happens.