I pruned the plum tree in early February, but probably should have done it sooner. I've also hacked back the plumbago.
Over the winter I've transplanted a few things. Most of the erigeron karvinskianus has moved to the front of the "corner lawn", where it is doing well despite rather rough handling. I also moved some sprigs of the salvia chamaedryoides to just behind the e.k. and several of them look to be growing. Better yet, I've put some suckers of the malacothamnus in the northern Zone and all seem to have taken root, or at any rate are growing new leaves. I transplanted four lenotis leonuris seedlings into the Strip, whereupon a frost took them out; I put one more in, with some protection, and it has lived. Best of all (perhaps), all of the watsonia that I transplanted last year are growing.
New plants in the corner lawn are a ceanothus griseus horzontalis and, umm, a "Mount Tamboritha" grevillea lanigera (hope I haven't confused that with my other grevillea). Neither has died yet. The yarrow in that lawn looks much denser now that it did last year.
In the back, we have one red primrose looking very well. The alstroemeria by the gate looks ready to bloom -- it never quite died down even in summer -- and the one behind the house is sending up shoots. The lithodora shows a few flowers, as does the gaillardia, which also hung on through the winter, and the osteospermum. The cyclamen, of course, are doing very well.
At the west edge, both the berberis and the hibiscus are quite bare. I don't see why the latter should have died, but can't rule it out. The teucrium is blooming nicely, and has been for months. The nameless ceanothus in the northern Zone is also blooming, and slightly bigger than last year. At the south end of the Zone, the rosemary looks wonderful and the juniper unchanged.