Today, I had the first and last bloom of the season of this daylily:
The reason is, every other bloom on this daylily was eaten by some deer. For my garden, I have a 7' deer fence, but not for my entire yard which I've decorated with Daylilies that I've been collecting over the last 12 years. I have over 35 variety now, and I'd like to see them bloom.
When Deer come around, they can create quite a bit of carnage like:
If you see your daylilies looking like that, then you've been deer attacked. My solution for this is a spray that is made locally to me, I Must Garden Deer spray.
This deer spray works great, but you need to re-apply after a rain. I was out of town and it must have rained, I came back to some carnage. Honestly, with the amount of blooms I have ready on my daylilies, the damage was fairly minimal. This one in the top of my blog was the worst damage, but at least I've got one bloom from it remaining.
My advice is, this spray is worth the money. If you have a vegetable garden, I probably wouldn't use it on your produce, but on flowers, this works awesome!
I hope you have success in warding off the deer population. Happy Gardening!