I knew it was deer but this morning I got up at 4:30 and just happened to look out the front window
and guess who was munching on my plants. Shitty pic two deer were munching away.
I think some 00 Buck can fix that.
Or, if you want something a little quieter… you can borrow my crossbow.
Every year my Wife spends a small fortune on flowers at Lowes. They last two weeks thanks to the many deer in my Community. She never learns!
Ive adapted to just plant stuff that deer would eat as a last resort (green giants, hollys, barberries, etc…). Nothing is deer resistant.
Best to just let them be and do their thing and forget about having a beautiful landscape…or secure the perimeter with 12 feet high fenced and let your dogs protect the property.
I’ve been a landscaper a long time and seen a lot of penis shaped arborvitae. You can always recognize an area where deer are active.
I have also seen, and in some cases used, many repellents (moth balls, Irish Spring soap, those little green pods u stick in the ground) and they don’t work or are only marginally effective. the deer either get hungry enough to hold their noses or they just don’t care.
The one thing that has worked 100% of the time is motion activated sprinklers.
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There’s a spray that has a very strong mint smell. It’s supossed to keep deer at bay. I’ll find the name and link it later.
Hopefully that works better than the things that are supposed to repel groundhogs 
If it was me I’d drop an anvil out the window on it like a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
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Ive tried everything from coyote piss to mint/rotten egg spray to those amazon motion detector sprays…the only thing that came close to working was the motion detector spray but those would go off randomly at anytime and would require batteries, etc…
Best is to accept the deer as part of your habitat and if you want greenery, plant some deer unfriendly plants/trees. Deers will eat anything if hungry.
Yellow Dial brand soap bar hung in pantyhose from a stake in the bed will repel them.
Woke up @ 3:30 this morning to get a drinks , I look out the bay window and low and behold 3 deer are on my lawn 2 are eating my grass and one is sitting down watching the other two.
I grabbed my I pad and took a couple of pics but the screens on the windows block don’t let you get a good pic, So I gently opened the front door and snapped a pic.
Oh yeh they ate the host’s and the tulips
Have bow, will travel. 
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I love chili!
Coyote urine.
Crossbow.
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Claymore
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Punji stick pit!
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I actually make my own deer repellant and it seems to work here, although if they are hungry enough they will eat anything.
Get an empty spray bottle, fill 1/3 with white vinegar and 2/3 water. Add a few drops of Rosemary Oil and Peppermint Oil. Put a squirt or 2 of Dawn in there, mix it up and spray. Sometimes I’ll add some hot sauce if I’m feeling particularly creative. Seems to last about a week, it doesn’t smell like rotting garbage, and it’s cheap.
I am in Hunterdon, my property borders the woods and a stream, and we have a ton of deer. This spray works on Arborvitae and Hostas, their 2 favorite things.
If deer are hungry enough they will eat anything. I’ve seen them eat Boxwoods and Colorado Blue Spruce, which are considered about as deer resistant as shrubs and trees get. Typically, once the deer start eating something they didn’t eat before they will continue to eat those plants going forward, especially in the dead of winter.
Sprays will work in areas with a marginal or little deer problems, and they need to be switched out for different ones every few weeks or the deer will get used to them. They also don’t work as well in winter when there is less food available for them in general.
Many conifers that deer typically avoid become delicacies in the spring, even when food is plentiful. I’ve seen many a “pine tree” with the tender new growth nibbled off.
One thing I have never seen deer eat is pyracantha