"Fall is a great time to take stock of what worked in the garden and what didn’t," observes Marie Iannotti, and that includes asking yourself if you took sufficient time to "stop and smell the roses." A summertime's worth of successes and failures are still fresh in your mind right now, making this the ideal time to draw up a list of "winners" and "losers" in your yard. You'll find this exercise generates garden design ideas that will come in handy for next year. Not sure where to begin? About's Gardening Guide lists 10 examples in this article.

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