I have quite a bit of experience with deer. Not as a choice, but with a nursery in a deer area, you learn things. First of all, lots of time deer leave plants alone that are smelly, minty, etc in the wild but then people find they do eat them in their yards. Well one of the reasons is because they water in the yard and when the plant is hydrated it weakens the substance in the plant so they don't find it so disagreeable.
The second thing is I have had experience with deer eating heather and things they do not normally eat, but will when its freshly planted. Then I discovered that if a plant is in packaged potting soil or normal nursery fertilizer mixes, they have a lot of nitrogen. Deer love plants that have a lot of nitrogen so I have people put deer scram out on newly planted areas till the nitrogen is out of the plants system. And if you need to fertilize, get one weak in nitrogen, most plants do not need a lot of it anyway and that is one way to make a normally rejected plant into deer candy.
People who are tight with the water and nitrogen in their yards do better with the deer resistive plants. Of course, if Bambi is starving, Bambi can deal with a disagreeable plant.
I love the style of that house, and actually they need very little in planting, its really nice like it is.
