Lawn looks like it gets a lot of attention. Been using any herbicide on it?

Herbicide damage was my first thought as well.

where are you ... was frost or freeze an issue???

there really isnt much to do.. with a stressed tree ... its not really hungry.. fert is not an option ...

so all you can do is insure proper water ... and wait and see ...

how do you guys equate herbicide damage... if it leafed out this way ... or maybe the leaves had just barely emerged ... and got hit ...

i suspect this is one of those mysteries.. we will never solve ...

you either enjoy learning and watching ...

or it bugs you so much.. you get rid of it ... though i suspect you invested a bundle on it.. and arent yet willing to chuck it in ...

ken

btw .. give us a pic of where it goes in the ground ...

what is your native soil ...

how did you plant it.. amendments???

general weather this spring.. torrential rains??? ... drought?? .. etc

ken

I live a few miles south of harrisburg pennsylvania, so I doubt it was frost. The leaves are niw hard to the touch and brittle. If I leave it alone will it leaf out normally next year IF it is herbicide damagE or should I just rip it out now and start fresh.

What type of herbicide have you applied? For the little it is worth: Sometimes the honeysuckle leafs out fine the year after I spray it with Round up. Sometimes it just does fine on new growth and sometimes it dies.