Hi, One wonders when seeing bulbs blooming in the wild why the deer haven't eaten them when they will eat them in most gardens even when as Jane points out there are a lot of other food possibilities. The ones growing on cliffs seem to get an obvious pass and growing through shrubs that might make them less accessible. But there are others that seem really easy to reach you sometimes see. Maybe it is the nutritional aspect of garden plants (fertilized, watered). A lot of public gardens I'm familiar with eventually resort to deer fencing. How about Zigadenus? It's supposed to be poisonous and I can't remember it getting eaten by deer. Z. fremontii is having a great year in the wild and in my garden with all the late rain this year. It is a very attractive plant. The local timber company cleared a portion of land alongside the road and near their office a year or so ago. It looked terrible at the time and we wondered why as usually they do that kind of work where the public can't easily see it and leave buffers along the road. We speculated that they were creating a fire break. This year there are hundreds of Zigadenus growing in that spot surrounded by French broom. They must have been there all the time, but it just got too shady for them to bloom well. The deer seem to be leaving them alone. Mary Sue