Wife and i bought a couple flowering plants to repopulate that area below the kitchen window where the grass had taken over and I had to dig it all out. I bought three liatris and my wife got a couple more lupines. Both seem to thrive pretty well here and better, the deer seem to leave them alone. I still put wire guards around them because the fawns don't know any better and when they sample new growth they often rip the whole plant out of the ground. But I forgot about the spotter ground squirrels. The little baby bastards can crawl right through the squares in the wire. They pretty much ruin one lupine and chewed off half of one of the liatris. I don't want to hurt the little guys but they need to learn their lot on life.
