At last in Spain! Two days of pruning, weeding and deadheading in a gorgeous weather, very relaxing! All the plants are alive, some look great like Gazania, thyme, sage, teucrium, coronilla, crassula, ficus (2 large trees), some not so good like ceanothus (strangely small and "wrinkled" leaves) and strelitzia, which doesn't grow at all. The callistemons are ok (an unlabeled one and Callistemone leavis), Metrosideros has new shoots. Should I feed or should I not and with what? Pittosporum and tecomaria capensis have lost leaves at the base, polygala also a little. Only coronilla has grown a lot. Dahlia in a pot from last year (which flowered 6 months) has come back, also hibiscus syriacus, which was completely dry in the autumn. Olivier Filippi wrote, that Lavandula stoechas doesn't tolerate alcalic soil and that oleander doesn't like overhead watering - I can see that.
Avout the invasives' list in Spain. I think it is a pity, that gardeners, biologists and environmentalists don't communicate enough. The bedding plants used everywhere are useless to pollinators. In Spain they are invasive. Gardeners want "instant colour". Native plants are often humble in look. How to combine everything in a harmonious way...