Deer are eating our lilys

I accidentally pulled one up, roots and all

location Raleigh,  NC,  US

The local deer are eating all the lily's around our mailbox.

This year, it started off with a few soon-to-bloom flowers, but yesterday, around 10-15 more lily's were eaten...even the ones that didn't bloom.

A photo of our mailbox with a forest of lily's surrounding it. Hidden in the forest is a small, Spring yard flag that says Home (with a flower as the "o"). In the lily forest are two types: a tall, skinny stalk with few flowering bulbs and a squatter, thicker stalked with many leaves and bunches of bulbs.

We have two types of lilys. One: skinny, tall, stalk with burnt orange & red, crinkly petals. Two: thicker stalk (close to a sunflower's thickness), lots of leaves, and bunches of flowering bulbs. I forget the colors, but we call these the "pretty ones."

The deer started eating the pretty ones too, even thought still: no bloom.

After Freyja's after-work-walk—our border collie—I wanted to break off one of the stalks of the pretty ones, so we could enjoy them.

I snapped the stalk, and pulled...ended up walking away with the whole plant. Length wise, I'm guesstimating around 3–4 feet (~1 meter-ish), from bulb to roots.

A photo of me holding a 3-foot-ish | 1-meter-ish long lily plant, roots and all, in our home.

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