Alice, through the years we protected many Orchids with a cage fashioned from chicken wire.
As beautiful as Deer are, they are deadly to many wildflowers. If you place a larger circle of chicken wire into the middle of the woods, you will be amazed at the appearance of "value-plants"! Some of our Cyp acule stands are in back of somewhat rickety old stonewalls. Deer don't like to cross them, good for the plants.