It all started with the fact that in the spring some of the growing points dried out, and the leaves began to turn yellow at the ends of the branches (and not vice versa). I treated it with fungicides and it helped, the leaf fall stopped (my tree history...
I bought this texas scarlet chaenomeles japonica at a big box store last month, since it looked healthy, large, and relatively low priced. It was only after I took it home and started chopping away all the twiggy growth that I noticed my intended trunk has some reverse taper in spots. If it just...