Your garden looks beautiful, Carla!
Our yard is a disaster. It was looking so beautiful, and then...a big storm knocked out the remaining part of a huge old cherry tree in our back yard, which in turn destroyed a section of our fence. Well, before we could rig up a barrier, the deer discovered the new entryway. (By way of explanation: We live in the woods in an area where deer hunting is not permitted, and the deer have become a huge problem around here. They're overpopulated and they are eating everything, getting hit by cars pretty much nightly, etc. Oh, and then there's the Lyme disease being spread by the deer ticks. So, I'm not the biggest fan of deer right now.) Even though we've since put up a barricade while the fence company orders the materials to rebuild that section of fence, the deer have discovered they can indeed *jump* our fence, or in a couple of cases crash right through it, breaking the bars. Crazy.
Well, our backyard has been a lush ground of oakleaf hydrangeas and hostas ever since we bought this house eight years ago, but no more. The &*$#@ deer have eaten every leaf they can reach off the hydrangeas, and the hostas are mere stalks now. It looks awful. My consolation is that at least now summer is nearly over, the pool is covered, and we're not spending as much time outside to see the carnage.
Sigh. I guess next year we'll be looking at planting more nandina, maybe some viburnum and something else that the deer seem to be ignoring for now in our front yard. But every time someone tells us, "Oh, deer won't eat that" we discover that if they're hungry enough, they will.