Soothing neutrals, casual furnishings and nearby Lake Michigan offer a Chicago couple and their guests a respite from city chaos

Victorian touches harmonize with contemporary amenities in this inviting vacation home with its own dock on the lake

It's invasive, a nonnative and a poor insect magnet. Check out these better alternatives to butterfly bush in the garden

Try these delightfully exotic stunners for paintbox colors, deep fragrance and intricately detailed petals

These 3 groups of plants will support masses of beneficial insects come autumn

Smooth sumac provides powerful jolts of fall color and persistent fruit clusters that add interest through the winter

Buttonbush is an adaptable woody shrub with delightful pincushion flowers

These plants survive and even thrive in tough clay soil east of the Rocky Mountains

This reliable, adaptable U.S. native provides spider-like foliage and clusters of blue to purple flowers in Eastern gardens each spring

Beckon bees and other pollinators in for a drink of nectar from this western U.S. native’s late-summer flowers