I always have deer in my yard and garden. Which annoys the heck out of me , but I love seeing them and the babies are so sweet. But they're hard on flower beds and gardens. If you don't do something they'll eat everything! We live in a pretty protected valley so the deer like it here. I started using a snow fence. Worked like a charm the deer can't SEE what's on the other side so they won't jump over in incase it's dangerous. (Unless the coyotes are chasing them)but that doesn't last forever so now I've switched to a 3 strand solar electric fence. Works awesome. Mom can easily jump it but baby will get zapped, so she just doesn't! I have a strand of electric fence around every flower bed too. I now only have to plug in the front flower bed and Mamma touches it once and all the beds are safe. Because she doesn't know which wire is hot. Took a couple years of having everything hot, but now we can mostly co-exist peacefully.