we live in midstate NY, out of town, with forests all around
....neighbor across the street goes to Fla each winter and simply
placed a three foot high wire around all the foundation plants about
two feet out from foliage ...the deer stay away ...he even did a loop
around a myrtle patch forty feet long and fifteen feet wide ..they
never jumped it

I have a veggie garden in the back, tried four strands of barbed wire
, 7 feet high ...large deer didn't try to get thru, but the little
guys wiggled thru and did damage ...now have electric run from house
thru trees 100+ feet and juiced all four strands .... no more problems
.... lowest strand is 1 foot off the ground and keeps the rabbits
away too ( and our pet cats grin ...hmmmm... wonder if the tail is
the last thing to see the wire?)

Stew Corman from sunny Endicott