How I Learned to Live With the Destructive Deer in My Garden

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5. Deer don't like

daffodils and have never bothered my peonies. They could easily eat the marigolds I planted, so they apparently don’t like those either. I have lavender they don’t bother. They will eat lily buds, but we fenced them in-a very small area-they don’t bother to try to eat them now.

I love to see the fawns during the summer and unfortunately one I have watched this summer was hit by a car this last weekend-mad me very sad. There are still two that come with their mother. The other doe is the one who lost her fawn. We also have some really big bucks that come around and can’t believe how large their antlers are already. There are a couple smaller bucks that travel with the big ones. No way you would ever want to approach any of these bucks! Late last summer I had to step out on our deck and yell at a couple bucks that were fighting. They were about to get their antlers locked together fighting and sure didn’t want that to happen. They ran off of course.