I agree about babying. I can't really. At a park I have a 700 foot 4 foot wide garden and quite a bit of it is greggii, microphylla and their hybrids. Other than weeding during the growing season the only work is cutting them all back in mid April. Except in the mildest of winters most of the them die down to near the ground. A friend brings a generator and a heavy duty hedge trimmer and we go to work. You will probably find you need to trim yours back in early spring too - more like early March for you. Otherwise they get leggy and open and covered with spent flower stalks.
Good luck with your new gardens. The early exploration of a new space is always exciting.
