Wife is fed up with our pet neighborhood deer eating her plants. What does texags find to be best flower bed/garden deer repellent? I live inside city limits, so fire arms not an option. TIA

aggiesed8r: Howdy, very sorry to Rain On Your Parade! Short answer, there is NOTHING, chemical that will stop them, NOTHING!!

Long Answer: We moved from Midland, TX to Rockport, TX in Sept 2013. There are NO deer in the city limits of Midland, and every yard is fenced in back. Not so Rockport, we live in the County. Club addition and the HOA for lots on the Golf Course fences are very restrictive, and so not many have fences. Also, it is heavily wooded and a deer habitat. Did not know NOT to plant where deer can get to your plants. Came out on day and all of them are GONE, several hundred dollars and many hours, GONE. You can get on the net and find hours of reading about deer repellents and their effectiveness, read some garden stuff about soap like Irish Spring as a repellent. Read it all, tried it all, one called Bobbex on Amazon kinda sorta worked. Tried the mechanical devices with motion sensors that then sprayed water, again, more miss than hit. In short, NOTHING BUT FENCING WORKS!

In fact, it is so bad that TAMC Ag Life no longer lists plants as deer resistant, damn things will eat everything!

Edit to add: One plant they absolutely will not eat, Periwinkle's! Any home with outside flowering plants in Rockport, those are all Periwinkles. Also, Murphy ask me to say that the more beautiful and expensive a plant is the better the deer like it!

interesting.. I've got a lot of acorn producing oaks, pecans, persimmons, elderberry bushes, mustang grape vines, and other plants around my property as deer attractants

Our ranch house yard isn't fenced here on the ranch in the Ozarks and the wife has lots of stuff in her flower bed. We usually have 20-25 deer grazing around our pastures by the house every day.
Our extension agent put us on a product called "Liquid Fence" Deer & Rabbit Repellent
It works fantastic. It's rain resistant and doesn't hurt your plants and pets.
It's made up here in Missouri and is the standard they use in parks and city/county properties up here.
I'll attach a picture.
It has worked great for us. The deer graze in the yard but won't touch her flowers and plants.