Tiger Lily

Why is it that deer only eat the lily that you spent too much money on at the garden centre? I have a lily that grows faithfully every year but I have yet to see what the flower looks like. The deer eat them ~ just as they are about to open! I am so glad I can provide them with such a succulent morsel. So tell me .. why don't they touch the profusion of tiger lilies that my sister gave me when they overran her garden?

That my friends is one of life's little mysteries.