rotflmbo ....

i would deny a deer problem.. and further assert ... that it was my master plan ... and that i pruned them that way intentionally ... lol ...

ken

ps: wait a minute.. are you pulling our legs ... or were those really short deer?

Funny how the deer didn't eat the bottom down to bare wood. And amazing how they rounded the lower corners of the top so nicely. Or maybe that was done later by the gardener.

Neighbor of my brother had all 8 GGs stripped of foliage as high as they could reach last winter.

If you look closely the EG's have Christmas lights on them. Maybe they found a way to stop or spook the dear away...
I do know one thing, as I eased through that area, you didn't have to look hard to see deer damage. I live on the coast at sea level but this was closer to the mountains of Md...
Here's the uncropped photo from my truck.

Oh, I believe you. I've had Red cedar (Juniperus viginiana) eaten up as high as they could reach (about 5 ft.) leaving nothing but bare wood and some kind of tall narrow Arborvitae at my old place killed after one winter (it had quite a bit of green left up high but still died for some reason).

Just curious to how 'lollipopped' they looked.