Have you used Liriope with success against deer before? I planted Liriope due to it being deer resistant but apparently the deer didn't get the memo. Chewed them down to the ground.

Yikes! I haven't personally but believe some of my neighbors have it. I'm going to look more closely tomorrow. I would love another option/suggestion.

Geranium maccrorhizum is low, handsome and should work there. Definitely highly deer resistant. One of the spreading Epimediums should also work and also highly deer resistant.

I'm not familiar with plants that would be more native to Texas.

Deer resistant is a relative term. If hungry enough they will eat. A conversation with a local nursery would be your best advice.

You are best going to a local garden center to get exactly what works where you are in your conditions. Those centers usually have at least one person who has some good knowledge . I live in an area where deer come in groups to visit so deer resistant is a bout as good as we get nothing much deters them when they are hungry other than a good fence

I know you didn't ask but the front door gets lost so if you could get a solid door and paint the door and its trim a nice color to add a focal point. Grayish blue would work with the house.

I know deer don't like ivy. Needlepoint ivy is easy to control to twine up the columns to soften their visual weight and frame the front door. Variegated leaves add interest.

Here in California deer don't eat lavender or rosemary but I don't know if those would survive in Texas. And daffodils, they don't eat our daffodils. What about Bluebonnets?

I want to repeat that the Geranium maccrorrhizum and Epimediums have never been touched by deer and I am in a heavy deer area. They were never touched where I lived previously and no one I have given starts to has ever seen them touched. I would say they are deer proof. The deer in winter will eat carexes and never touch those two.

@laceyvail 6A, WV This is good to know. I wrote both those down. I have blue rug juniper(read it's highly deer resistant) on a hill and every winter the deer go to town on it. They belly on up like it's a buffet. I have nandinas at the front of my house. Everything I have read say it is highly rabbit resistant. Tell that to the bunny that lives around here. Every spring he eats them. He was nice enough to eat from the back so the front looks ok. LOL

Clyde Kalvin, both of the plants I mentioned are for shade--and they do very well in dry shade. ( There are many, many epimediums, some spreaders, some clumpers and most are not evergreen. I'm not sure if any are actually. They are great plants, but you'll have to do a little research.)

If you need a low groundcover for a sunny spot, look for a relative of the G. macrorrhizum--G. 'Karmina' or 'Biokovo'. Similar looking though slightly smaller leaves and lower in height. Also (semi) evergreen in zone 5b and up.

Though you haven't asked and they are all taller, every iris you can purchase is very highly deer resistant--Siberian, Bearded, I. cristatas, prismatica, etc.

Also as deer resistant as it gets are all the ornamental grasses. And pretty much all want full sun. Many genera, species and cultivars both large and small.

Your selection of plants looks good.

The prickly pear or agave if its a larger one would look good planted in the back of your space with the shrubbier plants in front of it. Purple lantana makes a great front of the border plant with its low trailing habit.

We have a bunch of these plants with a few more great texas natives! Here‘s a texas ranger Lynns everblooming with parry’s agave and octopus agave against the house.