we also planted hellebore, and it's been nibbled on. i thought they were resistant because of their toxicity???

as we were planting it, i created this fantasy in my mind. i imagined a deer munching on the plant. after about 2 seconds it's eyes would roll to the back of it's head, and immediately it would just keel over.

i am going to try something different this fall. when digitalis is done and looking shabby, i usually cut it and just leave the stalks on the ground. this year, i am going to scatter the stalks among plants with less resistance. let the deer try to munch around that if they can. if it doesn't kill 'em, it'll sure give 'em a bellyache.

They munched our white pines (which I thought were deer resistant because we have tons of them growing in the woods near here) but so far haven't intruded into the garden. The leatherleaf viburnum had a nibble, but it must not have tasted good.