Purple Leaf Plum Tree

"We recently planted a purple leaf plum tree in our front yard (east facing) at our first house. It's surrounded by rocks. It seems to be doing fine, has some new growth, but not much. It's on a 14 min./day drip system. However, we learned after planting it that they like high humidity. Is this true, and if so, what would you suggest? We don't want to move it nor can we put grass down around it. We thought of planting some sort of plants around the base of it - would that help at all, and if so, what kind of plants would you recommend for this? Any info. regarding purple leaf plum trees would be greatly appreciated, as this is the first tree we have ever planted." - Read the answer

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