@gingerw Here's a something you can "plant" to deter the friendly neighborhood deer and squirrels - I make a pile of all the smallish sticks I pick up in my yard - in other times my grandson helped. When tender plants sprout, I poke 3-4 sticks into the ground around each one - as close as can get - even in the center if roots allow. The deer get poked in the face by the sticks when they try to browse and go elsewhere to feed. Protects hostas, tulips, lilies and other favorites of theirs. By the time the plants are taller than the sticks the deer have usually found someone else's yard. I also find that mulching around my favorites with large pine bark nuggets makes for uncertain footing that the deer avoid - other kinds of mulch not so much.
As for their browsing on the cherry tree, my friend sprays Plantskydd repellent on all reachable parts of his apple trees - stinky but it works. Read the directions though - not for use near harvest time, so he either thins all the lower apples off his trees or just lets the deer have them.
Sue