This is our second year here. Last year was a bit of a disaster as far as growing plants in our garden.  Can anybody suggest which plants would survive the heat and the winds.  Planted roses and they seemed to thrive, but everything else just withered and died.
Whilst writing could we ask if anybody could help us with our orange, lemon and mandarin trees.  We planted these 3 young trees, but they did take a bashing from the winds last year.  Now the leaves dont seem to have formed properly - is there a problem ?