I wouldn't worry about the abutilon. They always come back in zone 9.
If you inherited grafted hybrid teas, they'll do okay. It's rare for hybrid teas to thrive on their own roots. I recently looked through my rose list and found that I'm growing 584 hybrid teas, and only 21 of them are doing well on their own roots. Most of mine are grafted, of course, but I do have more than 100 own-root hybrid teas that might as well be thrown out.
They're never going to amount to much. Here's my post about the ones that do well on their own roots, in case you're interested.
http://garden.org/thread/view_...
As for the salvias, I think I was growing the wrong ones in most cases. Some of my salvias sailed through the drought with no problem.
