Goodbye summer garden

Flowers
Flowers are displayed at the Chelsea Flower Show on May 24, 2006 in London, England.
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Fall is a great time to plan and prepare next year's garden at a fraction of the usual cost. Rebecca Kolls tells you how, along with tips for tweaking your lawn turf, and what not to plant.

Kerri, Rebecca and listeners contributed a list of recommended gardens to visit:

Buchart Gardens, Victoria, British Columbia
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Keukenhof, The Netherlands
Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania
Japanese Garden, Portland, Ore.
Medellin Botanical Garden, Colombia
Botanical Garden of Guatemala
Omtepe Island, Guatemala
Kew Gardens, England
Los Tarrales Reserve, Guatemala
Kenilworth Aquatic Garden, Washington, DC
Como Park, St. Paul
Ouimet Canyon in northern Ontario
Mayflower Garden, Barnum, Minn.
Huntington Botanical Garden, Pasadena, Calif.
Chelsea Physic Garden, London
Winter Greenhouse, Hayward, Wis.
Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu
Noerenberg Memorial Gardens, Wayzata, Minn.
Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Ga.
Alnwick, Northumberland, UK
Clemens Munsinger Gardens, St. Cloud, Minn.
Claude Monet's garden at Giverny, France
Boboli Garden, Florence, Italy
Denver Botanical Garden
Baha'i Shrine and Gardens, Haifa, Egypt
Cranbrook Academy of Art's Campus Gardens, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Warwick Castle, England
Sofiero Palace and Gardens, Helsingborg, Sweden
The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
Green Spring Gardens Park, Alexandria, Va

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