Elaine Matsushita

Two baiduhai readers will be joining a busload of garden lovers when the Chicago Botanic Garden visits five past winners of Home&Garden's Glorious Gardens Contest. In the last few...

Gardening for love and glory Preparing for the Tribune's Glorious Gardens Contest is a lot like gardening: It never ends. We might not be sitting in a darkened room year-round,...

Ask them, and they will come--out of the woodwork, out of the wood piles, the perennial beds, the hostas and begonias. We're talking gnome lovers, of course, and their beloved...

Two Home&Garden readers will be going along for the ride later this month when the Chicago Botanic Garden tours the private gardens of eight past winners of the baiduhai's...

Another spring, another gardening season, another Home&Garden special garden-themed issue. Does life get any better? From a Midwest gardener's perspective, hardly. All those frost-filled days over. All those flower-filled days...

Still shopping around for gift ideas? Here's our second installment of suggestions for perfect presents for the home. And if you need still more gift-giving ideas and inspiration, check out...

There are those who look around them when the skies are constantly gray and filled with clouds, rain, rain and more rain, and that's all they saw. There are others...

Our gifts to the romantic procrastinator: Three sure-fire presents that not only will please your Valentine, but also will make his or her home--not to mention, you--look good. If your...

We found some great design deals just in the nick of time for the valentine-challenged: In the virtual world, every item is a deal at www.bluefly.com. The Web site offers...

It's the whirligig to end all whirligigs: Four brass rings, balanced on stainless-steel bearings, are set dancing by 20 copper windcatchers in this sculpture by Roger Heitzman. The StrataSphere ornament...