Beautiful pics, Daphne.
Given your plant attrition, and that you now only have "toughies", it might be a good thing to start a new thread about "tough" (hard to kill) irises. That would be a benefit to newbies, or folks with difficult gardening environments, I should think.
I had a look at your Gopher Hawk thing. I'm stupid - I can't quite figure out how to set it, or how such a flimsy looking thing humanely kills. And if I can't figure it out, I'm pretty sure my garden helper (in charge of setting traps for the pests) can't figure it out. Maybe I'll discuss it with DH when he has some bandwidth.
