Sean: Thank-you for the info and link...unfortunately when it comes to deer this area in VA is like another planet! The deer do not stop at anything. When I first moved there, I dutifully sought out all the native, deer-do-not-eat, species I could find. I robbed friends of cuttings, sowed seeds...I was determined to fill those bare spaces with what should be growing there....fool marching to the brink
I obtained just about all the "A" species on the Rutgers list! NOT 1! of them was deer resistant here...save maybe the paw paws. Yet, half a mile down the road out of the mountains, the deer adhere to many of the rules listed in your link. Go figure!
Bob and Sandy: Thanks for that suggestion....I shall google and buy....is this a cutting kind of thing, like root tone?