Prior to the European colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans harvested the wood of redbud trees to construct ...

This spring we added a 'Forest Pansy' redbud, a paperbark maple and a stewartia ... I don't think you're seeing any bug or disease trouble, so there's no need to spray. It's also unlikely ...

‘Forest Pansy’ is a particularly ... inches apart along the main trunk. Eastern redbud is best not used extensively as a street tree due to low disease resistance and short life.

I worry it has root rot. You didn't say in your column if you thought your Forest Pansy redbud was going to live or die. I have removed the mulch around my tree and turned off the irrigation system.