Spring home and garden tours provide that rare opportunity to walk through other people's yards, on patios and porches to see how they create their own private paradises. While pool, patio, home and garden shows are a great place to learn about new products, attend seminars and see the work of local landscape designers, it's the home and garden tours that really put you right where you want to be: in the backyards and front yards of home dwellers and owners like yourself. Since they live in your region, you get to see up-close how others deal with challenges like climate, soil, native plants and drought.