However, I also research the region's deer preferences and also ask customers for what their experiences have been. Forsythia is one of the plants that I would say falls into the regional category. Unlike Pieris and Viburnum, which deer almost everywhere will tend to leave alone, some deer like forsythia. It seems as though the deer near you do not like it. Deer do not like to eat holly because the sharp leaves cause their gums to bleed.
Fawns sometimes start to eat it and then stop when they realize they have a bloody mouth.
The deer tend not to eat the holly near me until late winter. They eat all the softer plants first. However, by the end of the winter when there isn't much food left they decide a bloody mouth is better than starving to death. You may want to talk to your neighbors about their experiences with holly. While it isn't a favorite food, I wouldn't call it deer resistant.