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So Annoyed!
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Got home today to find that something (deer?) had been in the garden eating my beloved plants 
Tulips - emerging heads chewed off
Roses - nibbled down to the bone
Hollyhocks - munched to pieces
I am beside myself. Does anyone have anything positive to say that will get me out of this funk?
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Roast venison?
Sorry ... I'll get my coat ........................... there are other regulars on here who have had deer problems - hopefully they'll be along soon with some helpful tips
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No tips, sorry to hear this
Dovefromabove - I'm an animal lover but if I had caught Bambi in the act I would not have been responsible for my actions!
Loads of deer here
. They LOVE tulips more than anything else 
. However, mine do not eat daffs, chinodoxa, primroses, pushkina, snowdrops or hellebores .....so we grow lots of them
. We have also fenced off an area of garden to grow all the deer ambrosia
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if you want me to give my summer planting list too then let me know ....its getting longer each year. I plant sacrificial offerings of a single plant, and if it survives then I plant swathes of them. We rarely see them, but they visit most mornings ....it normally takes them less than 2 days to find new fodder to munch.
Oh deer!
Fortunately our garden had high boundaries except one weak spot. We put 5 bar gates across which solved the problem. The deer could easily clear the gates if they wanted - but they are lazy creatures (like me) & there are easier pickings without needing to clear any jumps
Now, if anybody can solve the problem of voles in my veg beds......?
Just about getting over the trauma now - beer has helped. I can't hold it agaisnt them. If someone left lots of fresh baked cakes and biscuits unattended might be tempted to swipe one or two. Thanks for the sympathy and advice. New deer defences going up tomorrow. More attention to 'deer resistant' plants in future.
Electric fence?
A few years ago my veg garden was destroyed by deer, OH put a high fence around it, which solved that problem. But next thing was that all my flowers were nipped off and all the roses and new rose shoots were eaten in the bit of garden behind the house which had never had deer damage. They'd been in the lower bit and I'd removed all the roses and put them in pots around the house. But the deer started coming right up to the house and ate all the pansies in the pots on the terrace. OH then fenced the main flower garden behind the house, which is terraced, on a slope, quite a job.
It worked and I have my flower garden back. I'd tried other things before the fence, none of which worked, like anti deer spray on leaves, anti-deer pellets that smelt horrid, a flood light with a sensor.