Very lovely, too bad that are losing it.
I wonder if you would spray it with a mixture of egg and water,if the deer would stay away.
Have you tried tiarella? or heuchera? Some of them have a fuzz to their leaves and the deer might not like them.

Shelley
P.S. I had great success with the seeds that you sent me this spring.

That's such a shame Nicole, your rock shade garden looks soooo beautiful to lose.

Do you not have a outdoor territorial dog, how about a motion activated sprinkler?

Here are a few perennial suggestions that are deer resistant.... but if they are very hungry, they will eat just about anything ;)

Aconitum Monkshood
Ajuga Bugleweed
Alchemilla mollis Lady's Mantle
Amsonia tabernaemontana Blue Stars
Angelica
Aquilegia Columbine
Arisaema triphyllum Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Aruncus dioicus Goatsbeard
Asarum Wild Ginger
Chelone Turtlehead
Cimicifuga racemosa Bugbane
Convallaria majalis Lily-of-the Valley
Dicentra Bleeding Heart
Digitalis purpurea Foxglove
Epimedium
Filipendula Meadowsweet
Galium odoratum Sweet Woodruff
Helleborus
Heuchera Coral Bells
Lamium
Matteuccia struthiopteris Ostrich Fern
Myosotis Forget-me-not
Myrrhis odorata Sweet Cicely
Phlox divaricata Woodland Phlox
Polemonium caeruleum Jacob's Ladder
Primula
Pulmonaria Lungwort
Ranunculus Buttercup
Thalictrum Meadow Rue
Tiarella Foamflower
Viola labradorica Labrador Violet

Sharon

Here is a link that might be useful: Motion Activated Sprinkler

Shelley,
I've tried spraying a concoction of garlic which they supposedly hate, but as with anything sprayed, they seem to know that the rain will take the scent of those items away. They came when we were having a solid day of rain this week with thunder and lightning, so even the dogs couldn't hear/sense them in the gardens. The dogs are scared of thunder anyway...
Glad to hear I could add to your gardens!

Sharon,
Thanks for the list. I do have some of those plants in other gardens, but they need to get bigger before I divide them. I might start hitting the end of season sales at the garden centers/nurseries.
The deers have eaten the primulas and the Pulmonarias in the spring in another garden, so they are no-gos.
I just started some new cuttings of Bleeding Hearts so there's an option, and I have a huge Monkshood I could split this fall after it flowers.
I also have a young Aruncus Doicus - would it do well in such shade? If yes, then that's a perfect spot!

My neighbour installed one of those sprinklers to try and stop them from going in her veggie garden but they got used to it quickly.

The population has really increased here as we live on a peninsula and no hunting is allowed as gunshots would be too close to homes. The winters have also been mild. Usually 45% of the population is culled by the cold, but their survival rate during winter has been in the 90 percentile.

I started changing the sunny gardens last year since they found those first. I was so hoping they wouldn't discover the hostas. Silly me!! LOL!

Shirley - a beautiful garden...don't give up yet! I too have tried egg and water and it works with both rabbit and deer! The eggs spoil and although we cant smell it, they can and they stay away! Another one of my tried and true is pepper flakes! Just sprinkle it around you garden edge and watch - its work a try! If you are getting rid of your hostas, make sure you post them on the Garden Web first - you could make some great trades to put back into your garden - just ask for deer resistant! :0)

What a beautiful, cool, restful looking garden. I had forgotten how much I missed those woodland gardens with real "rocks". We've been in Florida for over 25 years, but lived in New Gloucester Maine for several years. Our 'farm' was right in the middle of the town wood lot and THE known deer hunting area. We were lucky to have a friend with lots of non book knowledge who suggested getting a couple of bags of spoiled onions from a grocery store to lay on the ground surrounding our vegetable gardenn... and suggested laying a 2-3' chicken wire on the ground around areas we needed to protect from the deer and racoons. We were protected from everything but the bear and our cow who would go through anything to get to turnips. I'm sure you've tried so many things.. we did. Hope these suggestions are some you haven't tried.
Linda