I have to go with the flow as I'm pretty busy going with the flow with the rest of my life. In AR, I started out with pretty much a clean slate, but inherited a beautiful yard in FL, to which DH and I have made numerous changes. Since we don't live year round in either place, sometimes things happen that we have no control over and we have to make allowances, such as one year the pump failed on the well in FL -- no watering system for awhile. Some plants survived, others didn't. Then in 2011 we had two frosts before we could get to FL and although I thought my phaius were dead, we got here just in time to save them, however, no blooms until this year. As Rick says, I am on the "live and learn" pattern. I try to learn from my mistakes, and try hard not to make the same mistake twice, although I did have to try three times to get phaius growing.
