BigBill said: You would be shocked if I posted a video here regarding me driving around the neighborhoods showing just how urban it is. Yet deer are extremely common as are other critters.
The fact that we have open woodland, residential areas and industrial area all interspersed together is what creates these ideal situations for animals to thrive.
If you take 100 square miles of one dimensional woodland with all oak trees or all beech trees, that does not hold very many deer. Back in college around 1970, it was known as uni-culture.
Take that 100 square miles, make it diverse with open, business and residential areas and the deer populations explode. That seems counter intuitive! But it is the mixed culture, the mixed habitats, that cause deer to be common.
Food becomes available, flower gardens, vegetable gardens etc. provide a varied deer menu.
Just this spring I had two near misses with turkey. One where three were standing by the side of the road like they were at a bus stop. As I neared them, they flew. The second time a turkey ran across the road 50' in front of me.

I had two deer run across that same stretch of road two weeks ago. They went from garden apartments to a single home section and then back to the garden apartments. They were not hit by me but it was odd that they seemed frightened a bit but yet stayed out near the road!
I use this analogy that to deer and other critters, humans have put up a "free food sign" up with this biodiversity. We can't keep them out.
For comparison, put a sign up " free hamburgers" in the middle of Livonia at a MacDonalds and sit back and watch the chaos!!!
Both deer and humans get hungry.

oh my good, well according with what you are telling me perhaps the Longueuil major is right about culling the deer. I had no idea they were able to get into city spaces to get food, I always imagined that was just a raccoon or squirrel thing.

@reyderrs your tree is looking great. Just curios, did you plant it in a full shade location or at least a north side with very limited morning sun?
If not, you may see burnt / dry leaves by early summer. The full moons do not like direct sun at all.

OttoBjornson said: @reyderrs your tree is looking great. Just curios, did you plant it in a full shade location or at least a north side with very limited morning sun?
If not, you may see burnt / dry leaves by early summer. The full moons do not like direct sun at all.

Hi @OttoBjornson Still doing great👍 sorry for the late answer I missed your post, I'll post a new pic later on the day. The location is pretty sunny, it gets sun from about 9am to 6pm. I'd say it gets a bit burned but towards the end of the season when it doesn't matter anymore. I think this cultivar handles the sun much better that Aureum and Jordan.

Here it is:

Vertical growth is limited because one year the terminal bud is eaten by animals, this year dried out by extreme cold, etc

It looks really good. This JM is supposed to be a full sun plant but I take that with a grain of salt as I am in the hot and sunny central valley and the website that says that is on the coast in Oregon.

What kind of flowers (white/pink) are off to the right side?

Lucy68 said: It looks really good. This JM is supposed to be a full sun plant but I take that with a grain of salt as I am in the hot and sunny central valley and the website that says that is on the coast in Oregon.

What kind of flowers (white/pink) are off to the right side?

Thanks Lucy, that on the background is a small rose bush from Proven Winners named 'Ringo' the flowers are quite interesting because they change color as they age from yellow, to orange and white, then when you have several roses with different timings it looks like that plant has 3 different types of flowers on it. Quite the sight!

Cool! I got a Ringo rose last winter. I was in love with all the colors on one plant.