Over the weekend I placed some pollinator friendly plants into a bed in my backyard. While it looks a little sparse now, these will expand.

I picked up my pollinator garden flowers for the bed prepared in my yard. I chose knockout roses, amaryllis, hollyhocks, dianthus and celosia - lots of color and varying height. I can't wait to plant them this weekend!

This image is an approximation of the colors selected

As this is a great team building challenge to connect outside of our professional lives, my team is participating together.

I chose to participate in this challenge because I believe we can all do microevents to preserve and protect the resources we have and fit those into our lifestyle if we aren't able to do bigger impacts. Since I purchased my home, I taken our environment into consideration as I remodeled, adding in energy efficient windows & appliances, solar panels, low water use toilets, and stating composting to help build up the yard, which was in desperate shape. This year, I am starting a pollinator garden and am very excited to see that grow!