I saw a grasshopper on it today. I think that is the same bug I saw yesterday. Is there a spray for it?

Far too late in the season to bother treating :-) And a few insect holes in the foliage is nothing to be overly concerned about anyway.

Curling leaves are likely a reaction to high heat......this is not a great tree for areas where summer temperatures routinely exceed 90F for months on end. Will likely continue to struggle going forward..........

Thank you. I wondered about it being late in the season. Guess I'll have to be on the lookout for them next year.

It got to 114 one day in June. It was really hot. I wondered if the heat might have been responsible.

will it help if I put that UV netting over it during the hottest part of the year?

That would look awful in my opinion and defeat the purpose of having a tree in the first place, which is presumably to have something attractive in front of your house. And I don't think it would make much difference to the tree. It's just going to be miserable until it inevitably dies. Much better to choose a tree suitable for your climate. The rocks surrounding it won't be helping either warming up and reflecting heat.

I agree it wouldn't look good. We'll see how it does next year.

just planted a weeping cherry earlier this year.

==>> when was it planted... when did the heat of summer hit thereafter ...... how did you plant it.. how did you water it ... is there plastic under the rock ... potted or ball and burlap ... were the roots circling around the pot, if any ....

just forget about bugs.. unless you find multiples of ten of the same bug on it ... and you are spot on about treating for bugs in fall ...

btw .... how cool does it get at night.. after a 100 degree day ...

are these common in that climate????

ken

I had someone plant it for me, so I didn't see the root ball. It was planted soon after it bloomed, so that was probably March or April. I think it was in a 15 gallon container. It was the hottest in late June when it got up to 114 one day.. There is no plastic under the gravel. Most of the houses in my tract have gravel yards. At night the temp goes down about 20-25 degrees from the daytime. In early July, we have a monsoon season and it rains every few days. This was a particularly wet year. The monsoon season lasts about 2 months.

Once the monsoon season started, the temp in July was usually in the high 90s or low 100s.

Everything is on a drip watering system. I gave it and other things more water on hot days.

Once September comes, the temp starts going down. The highest temp is about 90 now but it's mostly in the 80s now. We are at about 3300 ft elevation, so it can snow a little in the winter.

when you asked if these were common in this climate, I didn't know if you were asking if the weeping cherry was common here. There aren't a lot of weeping cherries around here, but there are a lot of flowering plums in the area. And I saw a couple of weeping cherries at the Home Depot recently. I got my tree at one of the local nurseries. Both of the local nurseries had weeping cherries earlier in the year. I didn't think it would be a problem.