Deer resistant (proof) landscape

so here the useless advice from the south:
why do ya'll think it is called buckshot?

Hmmm, interesting. I will definitely be planting a food plot for the deer and may do some corn feeders to keep them mostly interested in places other than a garden and the house planters. I'll have to see what I need to do for the garden when it comes down to it.

LOL on the electric fence and the kids.

I have a 10x10x4' high fenced in area up at the cow pasture, keeps the cows off my feeder but the deer will still jump in. As mentioned before in this thread, Ive spent many many hours watching deer year round and they will def gravitate towards corn and leave other good munchies in the immediate area alone. I've tried evey known deer favorite from peanut butter to clover and they'll pass it for corn. Apple trees would be an exception.

LOL on the "training". If I did that, our dog would get a bit of "training" too, because I'm sure he'd try to lick it.

If you're lucky enough to have fire ants then Lyme disease isn't usually a problem. The deer are thick here, but Lyme disease isn't near as common as it is on the east coast. There's really not much they want eat if they get hungry enough, since you have some space I'm going to guess they won't be really thick. They don't tend to like herbs and they won't eat palms (might be a little far north though for palm choices). There's about 900 varieties of Salvia, they don't tend to like them, but I have seen them eat them when there's nothing else.   You can get away with some things they like by having a border of things they don't around it. They'll eat or rub most trees so protect them until they are tall enough that the deer can't chew on them. I do like deer around Crepe Myrtles because they keep the suckers on the trunks cleaned off. I also like to test things, buy one or 2 and see what happens,

Fence the garden!!!!   If you'll eat it so will they. My neighbor, who also feeds them, has a good sized garden (20x50) and he does a simple 3 wire electric fence around it. Really easy to take down and get the big tiller in when he needs to and not really noticeable.   The folks to my side have a setup like your last garden, they built a 7 ft fence around it and that doesn't disappear like the electric wire will, and it's a lot more work to bring everything in and out through a gate.

Pinus Plastica lol
In Michigan the deer don't like Juniper not sure about your region

We gave up at the lakehouse nothing but cactus and local stuff in the beds that they don't seem to care for. Anything pretty was eaten within a day or two.

Actually the only thing that reduced the amount they ate in the beds was making sure the feeder was full and spinning every few days. :) At least we get to watch them eat their breakfast while we have ours when we are down.

Looking for some advice and suggestions here. For those of you that have active deer populations around your place, what have you found can be planted and not get eaten by the deer? I'm looking for plants for planters, shrubs in planters, smaller trees, flowers, bulbs, etc.