lady of the bats We feel your pain. I am currently facing the three horsemen of the apocalyse: Deer, Wallaby and Yowie. If it wasn't for the kind words of encouragement from the forum-mongers, Uncle Remiggio and I would have long ago surrendered. I won't bore you with the long history or soul-crushing defeats, outright routings and dismal failures we have had to contend with, but believe me, my Ice Berg roses will never be the same again and Uncle Remiggio still has a slight limp and one eye is more askew than socially acceptable. Be advised, don't waste time exploring the various solutions on offer - their is no chemical, device, detector, emmitter or philosophy that has any effect on these creatures (I include possums as a potential fourth horeseman). Their is one and only one solution - extermination. After months of research - literally weeks spent acting and thinking like animals, Uncle Remiggio and I have engaged in a ruthless guerilla war determined to eliminate the foe or die trying. You will be abused. You will be reviled. The percieved cuteness of the possum is seem by many as more than enough reason to allow them to eat your plants and defecate on your Ice-bergs - but be strong - kill - kill - kill. Please note that any comments in defence of "native" animals will be ignored vigorously.

Here's a link to the previous discussion :-) https://www.houzz.com/discussions/deer-resistant-summer-bulbs-to-plant-now-dsvw-vd~4584647 btw, deer love my lilies!! I have to go through all manner of manipulation to keep the deer away when they are in bud.

First, GGP's hardiness zones are way off so don't pay attention to that feature!! They are showing me as a zone 7 whereas I am really in zone 8b and bordering on 9 since I am only a half block from the beach and water is a climate moderating factor. Try this instead: https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/ Second, deer tend to have regionally varied diets :-) What some deer favor in one part of the country they never bother in another. Local deer resistant listings are your best resource and your county extension office should be able to help you with that. And Rutgers University (one of the extension service sponsor universities) has a very good list you can use for a reference. It is quite long and detailed and rates the plants from "rarely damaged" to "frequently severely damaged". Rutgers Deer Resistant Plants Rating. Finally - and this is the most important of all - deer don't read the books or the lists!! This means there are no guarantees :-) Babies will often sample anything to see if it is tasty or not. And anything new is likely to get munched on initially as well, for the same reason.....does it taste good? And at least in my garden, deer will munch the fresh flowers off of just about anything, whether they bother the rest of the plant or not! True deer resistance only comes by preventing access to the plants in the first place. So fencing is your best bet for complete deer resistance.

mad_gallica--Re hardiness of Cephalotaxus. Some sites say it is hardy to zone 5 and I had one at my old property when I was certainly still zone 5. I know it came through one spell of minus 16 degrees. My name says zone 6A, but with climate change, I expect I'm now likely zone 7--winter temps haven't gotten below maybe 10-12 degrees in years with a once or twice dip to maybe 3-4 degrees. It actually rarely even gets into the teens even at night. I miss winter! I've never seen it around here either, but you don't see much other than what can be purchased at Lowes around here. My new neighbors were astonished that plants could be purchased through mail order.