I didn't realise how long this blog had been dormant.
Last year we agreed in principle to have the front and back yards, but not the east side, professionally designed and landscaped. So anything in there that I wanted to keep had to be moved, except the plum tree. I'll also ask the designer (we have not yet selected one; soon) about including the grevilleae that flank the plum, a "Noell" to the east and another of similar size to the west. Oh, and the yard-wide strip under the north wall of the house can stay as is.
Anyway, a few years back we had to have the house termited, so the Clovis that had been growing undisturbed for years -- as the Book advises -- by the front door had to shift. That was quite a diaspora, with at least eight clivillae. As of today, they are replanted in smooth, moist soil under the north wall, in a place where I used to have some Salome and Ice Follies narcissi. Those have moved to the west rim of the southeast yard, and its east rim is occupied by about half (so far) of the "paperwhite" and Falconet narcissi from the front yard. Tomorrow I transplant my few remaining (sob!) daylilies and perhaps a salvia greggii from the back yard. Next: the remaining watsonia, perhaps into a raised bed.
Over the end-of-year break, I used some stepping stones set on edge, and concrete pavers, plus hardware cloth underneath, to build two raised beds in the SE, about five feet by two feet by six inches (not on oath!). On MLK day, a third. Not much is growing in them; I intend them for vulnerable bulbs. Neither gophers nor other sane animals will eat narcissi.
Also over the break, I dug up some offshoots of the Godzilla and moved them to the NE. Wonder of wonders: both are putting forth leaves and seem likely to establish themselves. I could have bought another, but this feels better. The teucrium fruticans, fun as it was, may have to die where it is, though I could conceivably put one of its offshoots near the Paraguay nightshade. It grows to a ridiculous size, and spreads underground too. Think about it