California Gardening: What's happening in your spring garden #2, 1 by Twincol

Twincol wrote:
OK, you guys, I'm passing along a pic of my pink jasmine. I've got pink jasmine on both sides of my driveway and planted it to create a year-round soft cloud-like effect. It was an enormously successful plan and I love it. It intrudes into my white Lady Banks rose like magic.

The buds have been dark rose for a week and I come home from work every day in great anticipation, awaiting their explosion and the sight and scent it will bring as I pull into the drive.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn as a new gardener is patience. As I planted little plants each year and awaited their maturing all this talk about Spring and the loveliness of the season was quite seductive. And I'd get so discouraged because I couldn't make my garden space look pretty like all the talk lead me to believe it should look. But I must tell you that after several years of getting out in the patio, for instance, weeding, sweeping, pruning always left me delighted when I finished. The next day it seemed as if it was right back where it was before all that loving work. That experience finally resulted in a sense of patience with the change of each season. I now leave much of the seasonal mess alone until late in the early season (huh?) before I get out there and obsess about making it look perfect.

Is that what some of the rest of you do?