On Mar 29, 3:54 pm, "shazzbat"
wrote:
"James" wrote in message

oups.com... My pet bunnies complete chew the bark around several apple trees. If
I make cuttings now and stick them in the ground, is there much chance
they'll root? They just started leafing. Would I be much better off
just buying dwarf varieties at the nursery?

Probably. If you take cuttings, you'll be taking them from above the graft,
which means they won't be on a dwarfing rootstock.

Can you protect the trees with some chicken wire etc, to protect the bark,
or is it all gone?

Steve
Bark completely round the trunk gone from ground to 2' up. These were
not dwarfs.