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

Thinking like a butterfly leads to fresh perspectives in the garden and in life

Encourage these fanciful winged beauties to visit your garden while helping restore their fragmented habitat

Keep hope, beauty and kindness alive in the landscape by providing a refuge for these threatened enchanters

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

Green antelopehorn is a milkweed that is short, drought-tolerant, not aggressive and a monarch favorite

Make a habitat using local materials to provide a home to the creatures that help our gardens

Track butterflies, study birds, capture stars ... when you aid monitoring efforts, you’re lending Mother Nature a hand

Tall blazing star’s unique flower spikes bring butterflies and bees to eastern U.S. gardens in early autumn

Provide nesting, watering and perching spots inspired by the Costa Rican jungle and watch the birds flock on over