If you have deer you will almost certainly have rabbits and raccoons. That’s another reason for the “buried” chicken wire. It seems that they give up once they try a few places - because they don’t know how far down (or out) to dig. We haven’t had a groundhog since we did the buried fencing-but we see them all over the neighbors yards. They are like cockroaches around here.
The only reason I got a few bunnies was because I was lazy about putting the chicken wire tight to the yard fencing and zipping it together in a couple of places. A few found some low gaps and hopped through the yard fencing while they were still tiny. I have most of it fixed, and will fine tune it after we strip the garden next week. At one point we had three generations of bunnies hopping all over our back yard.
Season here is about done.
We picked up some deer resistant Michigan native plants at one of the parks I mentioned earlier today. A bit premature perhaps but they don't sell them all the time. We got two varieties of fern, swamp milkweed, white indigo and a prickly pear. We have heard that you can protect deer candy plants by pairing them up with similarly sized deer resistant plants.