I ended up having to cage the lilies in tomato cages wrapped in fine mesh plastic fencing folded over the top. I'm 99% sure it's deer eating the. If I move pads outside the cage they are gone in a day or two. If I pound a few metal posts in the ground just in the water line and run that wite used in electric fencing to make a quick and dirty fence does that seem like it would deter them? It would probably be a 5 ft fence with 4 rows of that wire. I was thinking of just running it in front of the area with lilies turning it into the water at the edges but not surround the lilies from the middle of the pond side. I don't know how deep a deer will wade but I was thinking they wouldn't wade out in the 2 to 3 ft water.
