Garden

[Stevie Nix]

@Gram W - Loved your post!  Made me laugh.  Our deer have been feasting on acorns - I'm OK with that.  I wish they would leave my Arborvitae trees alone and eat weeds and crab grass instead.  But they don't listen do they?

[JustJazzmom]

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@wildcat fan wrote:

The same thing happened with my Asiatic lilies.  The stems were there, but the leaves and flower petals were gone.  🙁

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Rabbits eat Asiatic lilies and do just that kind of damage. Use barriers around the lilies to deter them. I had to get rabbit fencing and cut it to fit around my lilies.

[kelsey17]

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@Gram W wrote:

It does sound like deer.   I know that my deer laugh at the on line list telling us the flowers they will not eat and what is safe to put on/around the plants so they will not touch.  I even printed the Cornell University Extension list and hung it out for them.  They just laughed and ate every single Oriental lily blossom that night.  ;-).   Our Agway Farm and Garden store recommended a spray that stinks and taste of real hot peppers but hurts neither plant or animal.   I sprayed everyday to make sure the few did not wipe it off.  It worked a few days and I only lost some leaves but the hostas survived.  Someone got smart and they now dig up the plants and eat the new baby leaves underneath.   I also questioned where all of my bulbs are going.  Some are even showing up later in a new place not of my choice.  Agway told me that squirrels like my bulbs better than they do all of my black walnuts.   The deer ate my 2 apple trees.  They seemed to work around and thru all netting and fencing.  On the good side they like black walnuts.  When I do my last mowing for the fall I mow a little higher to go over top of the nuts.  In the process many of the outer shells get a good knick making it easier for the deer to get to the nuts inside.  Pheasants, woodchucks, rabbits encouraged me to give up gardening.  Even with fencing the deer knocked it down and everyone else ran in.  I now buy from the stand a mile away.  He has 8ft fences with netting over all but he says it is a challenge.  Good thing we all love our 4 legged neighbors.

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We have deer around alot...but we have had success with replacing Impatiens with Vinca......for 4 years now the deer totally avoid them...and will walk around them to eat my hosta's!!......Vinca looks almost identical to Impatiens............They don't go for the Salvia i plant behind them either......................we have some begonias this year...so far...they haven't eaten them...but not sure

what the colder weather may bring as far as the begonias!

[Carmie]

The deer eat good in my neighborhood too.  I put a fence around all of my flowers and veggies, so....the little dickens came right up on my front porch and ate the wreath right off of my door.  The wreath had dried corn, wheat and herbs on it.

[RedTop]

If only the flowers are missing, I would suspect rabbits or even ground hogs.   A deer is going to grab a mouthful and pull the plant up by the roots---not just nibble tops off.   Deer are voracious eaters, and when they find something they like, they don't leave until they eat all of it.