It hasn't been scientifically proven, but I've observed that those dang deer in my yard just don't read those "deer resistant" tags!

We don't have very much trouble with the deer here since our winters are fairly mild and there is a lot of forage for them. Sometimes they will nip the tops out of our young tomato plants.

oohhhh boy I forgot to spray and they ate all my hostas, hydrangeas, and azaleas in the back of my yard I was sooo good all summer too.. until now

Oh no!! that was not nice of the deer to do that Allison!! The photo was taken this spring of a doe boldly looking over my fence directly at me after she been chased out of my neighbors yard where she had been browsing, I think she wanted to see If I had something good for dessert!

hope this early damage does not mean another bad winter.. never see it this time of year

They love penstemons and blooming yuccas...and lots of other flowering plants. Of course, during this drought, I'm feeding and watering deer outside our fence. They were absolutely starving.

We had a bad winter last year. They dug thru the snow and ate Heuchera Caramel.It didnt return. They also ate hydrangea back to 6 inches.It didnt bloom and stayed smaller but I liked it anyway.

that hydrangea was a rooted cutting from Pirl and just started looking nice... and they plowed down my pinky winky.. the one azalea is 4 years old.. and I didn't see it bloom once yet.. they usually get it during the dead of winter though.. not this early

A few deer haven't made it already. One died right by my neighbors front door the other day. I'm feeding them stale chips, bread, and any veggies/fruits that are starting to go bad. I also have a bucket of water for them. The only problem is they're also competing with the tree rats and birds and sometimes they don't make it on time.

I guess they figured out that my plumi wasn't nearly as tasty as my begonia and are now avoiding my front porch entirely.

It really breaks my heart...some just won't make it! Water helps, deer feed or anything edible for them helps, but it's so sad. I know, anything I put out will be gobbled up, not always by the species I want to help. The hogs, for instance...more people here are talking about trying to kill them because if someone is walking around in the wrong place at the wrong time now...they're likely to hear those awful noises nearby...it's very scary, believe me, I've heard them. One man in Bandera Co. somewhere was attacked on his property...he said he regretted being unarmed...was barely able to get home with the bad injuries he had.

The plumeria has a milky latex in the leaves and stems. One taste and they'll stop eating it for sure. At the lake, I've put out BBQ, mashed potatoes, salad stuff, baked beans...you name it...the deer will eat it. They are literally skin and bones out there. no one's feeding them because of the hefty fines. I'm not feeding them, I'm just "drying some fruit and greens" before I take them home.

Here, the neighborhood deer seem "well-fed." They seem to gravitate to the new neighbors' yards too. You know , the ones who plant hydrangeas, impatiens and roses in the front beds.

Of course! That's why they're well-fed! The deer in this area would think they were in heaven if they had access to plants like those! Most people out here don't have a garden. Besides, people around here sometimes shoot at them...strictly illegal, but it happens. So, they're kind of afraid of people.

The ones at the lake are sooo hungry and weak. I can walk out on the deck and they just stare at me. I go back inside, find something, anything in the freezer, and toss it out the door. They sniff it, then begin to eat. DH reminds me I'm "gonna get in trouble"....but they are pitiful right now. And we're right on the water, but I've never seen them venture down to drink from the lake? We even have steps going into the water (for the old Cocker Spaniel that couldn't jump in anymore). I remember reading that people think they're doing a good thing by giving them corn, but the deer that eat a lot of feed corn wind up having multiple births...like triplets. Not sure if that's a tale dreamed up by some person who doesn't want their landscape eaten, tho. With some of the stuff I've fed 'em, they will be spouting..."Ola!" by Christmas!

I'm just afraid that one fawn here will end up thinking that deer are only supposed to eat what is left in a bowl on one side of my property. Hopefully its mom is telling it they would normally eat the yummy plants which would be green and edible around here most years.

Moms know best!

I really wonder what's been eating the mistletoe this year. I wouldn't think that's normally an edible thing. And yet, something's been eating on it.

I've lived with deer for years in zone 9 - had no garden at all because I couldn't afford to fence the yard. When I moved to zone 5,
I really didn't expect them to eat my yucca and arborvite, but I guess it was a hungry Winter.

When yuccas bloom, the blooms as well as the stem is like deer candy for them! When they get really hungry, they'll go after the lower parts of the plant. I made the mistake of planting a red yucca outside my fenced yard once and they enjoy it like they do the other yuccas out there. When the Texas Milkweed bloom out there, they eat the flowering part of it.

We're starting to see deer more often here. So far, they've not touched the Yucca, it's up against the house, though. We planted some Yucca glauca by the driveway and this may be more attractive to them. I guess I could plant more mountain mint or Monarda nearby.