JRsbugs said:By July 2012 it had just a few leaves left on it! Was it a hot dry year?
If I recall right, it was, here in Minneapolis at least. In Chicago, WolframAlpha shows that one stretch in the summer had average high temperatures at 90 F and several days up to 100 F, which is unusual (
http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...). It looks like during that period there was not enough rainfall to offset the high temperatures.
