Dead Japanese Maple?

[Okie294life]

I have a small Japanese Maple I feel front of my house, cut it back a couple years ago, cut one of the main offshoots because is was impeding on my sidewalk. Tree seemed to be doing just fine until this dormancy season. It’s still warm here in AR, not many trees are losing their leaves but, half the leaves in this tree straight up died, then then about a month later all of them died. The tree didn’t turn red or go through it’s normal dormancy cycle. Half the tree has limbs and shoots that are still pliable, the other half snaps off like firewood. Is there any saving this thing or do you all think it’s KD?

 

[Maintenance supervisor]

They are pretty fragile, probably a lost cause.

 

[capetrees]

any chemical applications to walkway weeds? Any cutting of the roots lately? Drought?

 

[Okie294life]

any chemical applications to walkway weeds? Any cutting of the roots lately? Drought?

No root cutting but did some roundup nearby on the rock bed around it for weeds. Didn’t get the tree though.

 

[Okie294life]

any chemical applications to walkway weeds? Any cutting of the roots lately? Drought?

No drought

 

[capetrees]

No drought

But getting water? Sometimes, if the roots are under or near a walkway, depending on what the walkway is made of, the heat transfer from the surface down into the soil, and thus the roots, can dry the soil and thus deny the tree the moisture it needs.

Possible?