Gopher Issue/'Blue Glow' Hoarding?

 

I'm really unsure as to how to approach the gopher issue--how do I get between the above plants to set traps?  See the problem?   

Veteran traps ready to go, but...go where?

Until I figure it out, fall clean up continues.  The yearly chop of the Iochroma, a dead branch sawed off one of the Pittosporums, dead leaves raked up and saved for the compost, dead leaves pulled, tired plants cut back, seeds planted (trying carrots), seedlings nurtured (Lobelia erinus).   Roses, still to be admired.

And a Happy 13th Birthday to Boris and Natasha, seen here very sleepy and not inclined to do anything but go back to sleep:

One of the virtues of 'Yves Piaget' is that the color it displays as it is about to fall apart is just as lovely as the color it displays when it first opens.  Different, but equally beautiful.

Old 'Yves' doesn't get blotchy:

New 'Yves':

Also no blotchiness from 'Moondance' with 'Firefighter' and a bit of Eucalyptus 'Moon Lagoon' foliage:

Up on the west side slope again to chop down a flower stalk from a 'Blue Glow' Agave. The flowers were finished.   

More enjoyment of the Tagetes lemonii, too:

The flower stalk was removed from the Agave on the left:

The flower stalk happened to have quite a few bulbils on the top:

More than a few, actually:

I've already got stashes of  'Blue Glow's from previous blooms tucked here and there in the garden:

Good grief, I'm a 'Blue Glow' hoarder.  Seems a shame to throw them out, though.  Today at a garden center  gallon sizes examples were going for $39 apiece.  

I'm not about to feed them to gophers, though.   

Elsewhere in the garden, there is Eriocapitella I didn't manage to eradicate last fall that needs re-eradicating. 

The autumn colors of many-months-old and several-weeks-old Hydrangea flowers are there to contemplate:

And Parthenocissus foliage, too:

Do you have a plant you have too much of, but it seems a shame to toss (or compost) them all?