I wouldn't cut anything back.
Cutting back even further would likely kill the plants.
Deer are something most gardeners have to deal with eventually.
In my gardens, nothing beats a fence run along the wood line.
A fence out in the open... May as well not bother.
Raw egg in a blender of water poured over affected plants with a sprinkling can works... If you reapply weekly and after every single rain event...
Eggs work because rabbit and deer are strictly vegan.
Will not stop squirrels or rats.
UlsterCoGardener said: daylilies, tiger lilies, obedient plant, hosta, echinacea, rudbeckia, salvia, campanula, columbine, mallow
They're eating salvia?
Salvia and monarda are usually not bothered... or not bothered much...
There is a third option that I've had pretty decent luck with...
That's when the population becomes herds... and no amount of fencing is effective due to their desperation...
And, that's when anything with a bite taken out of it gets dug out and removed...
Then grow what's left... and only plant stuff for the pharmacological garden, psychotropics, and stuff from the poison garden:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
