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.
Well I come from a farming family. One thing I remember my Grandfather doing was always planting a garden four times the size he needed. Another was telling me year after year that none of the things he’d tried - scarecrows, soaps, tin pans, plantings, chemical deterrents - etc., ever worked.
So, he planted the bigger garden in hopes of having about what he needed left over after the wildlife got it’s share.
I don’t have the space or the humanity (?) for that, so I built a fencing system. Screw the wildlife - let them eat what nature provides I say! LOL.
The weather and insects get enough of my crops. :)