>>I'm mostly a "stick it in the ground and see what happens" kind of gardener<<

Honestly, unless you're trying to cultivate something very rare and/or very finicky, this is usually a good enough approach. If it's going to require a ton of babying to survive conditions where you are, it might not be a great option anyway. And hey, flowers mean it's doing well enough to carry out its normal life processes--sounds like success to me!