Aargh! Deer ate the Day Lilies

A few days ago the flower bed of day lilies was full of potential. A few buds had opened but there were a large number of buds that were still forming.

Yesterday I discovered the devastation caused by browsing deer. The part of the flower bed I had photographed on the 18th still had a few buds; probably about half of them had been eaten. Maybe something has caused the deer to hurry away because the other end of the flower bed had almost no buds! I’ve circled the nipped stalks in the image below. Aargh!

I’ve learned my lesson….I’ll be spraying the liquid deer fence every week; it had worked well during the spring when I had sprayed regularly but I had stopped - thinking the deer now had a lot of other food around. I hope that somehow the lilies recover enough to produce a new crop of flowers if I keep the deer away.