Oh, that's a shame! Teresa.
I remember from your landscape photo (I think?) that you do not have a fence, so this might not work, and I know deer can jump over any fence built if they want to, but if you string bright reflective material along the fence, it spooks them and they lose interest in going in there. I believe reflective silvery milar tape is made and sold for this pupose; I've seen it in use but no idea who sells it.
So anyway, if you can figure out how to locate some kind of bright reflective barrier, I think it can help.
Good luck!
Another idea is to place/plant material you don't care whether they eat, outside at the edge and put your material you want to protect further in. Unless they are really starving, they tend to pick and choose and don't necessarily eat all of it! I had a garden in deer territory once that got visited a time or two -- I had no fence at all, no way to protect it -- the deer did eat a rosebud I didn't care to lose off a new bush, but they really did very little other damage.
But, daylily buds are TASTY!
