garden planning

My environmental conditions are such that I have a plant survival rate of about 30%. Over the years I have carefully planned plantings not merely for survival but for aesthetic effects as well. BUT with my low survival rate these careful plans NEVER come to fruition - mass plantings look like a few random specimens, a hedge looks as if it has been bull dozed in places and groups of plants carefully chosen for form, colour and leaf shape, look as though we have planted what ever was on special at the nursery. Aesthetically it is a mess.
 
What do professionals do when their best laid plans go awry from forces over which they have no control? Do they replant or replan? Do I pull out plants that are at least above the height of the grass around them because they were not in the initial idea? Or do I just accept that, like it or not, I have a 'cottage garden' effect of randomness?
 
Margaret Healey
Australia
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