Native Pollinator Garden

For a native pollinator garden, I divided my front yard into sections around a bee lawn. The photo above is a DURING photo, showing the mulch covering the bare dirt until I plant my plugs. Below are the BEFORE photos.

The native rose will be planted near (but not too near) the electric box.

Clover will surround the sharing library, now an official Little Free Library.

In front of the lilac shrub, I'll have some plants.

These two corners will be filled with a variety of plants. I dug the dip out, filling it with rocks and covering with mulch so that we capture some of the water taht would normally head down the storm drain.

Here's a DURING photo. My darling dear of a husband helped me dig. 

These AFTER photos are unimpressive now. The plant plugs are about the size of the four packs of annuals from a greenhouse. In this bed, I have blanket flower and butterfly weed (orange color palette), along with alyssum and transplanted lilies from the rock.

This is the biggest garden by far with a purple palette: purple coneflower, prairie smoke, wild lupine, prairie phlox, silky aster, annual salvia, and alyssum. I've also planted some sunflower seeds (Velvet Queen). I'm hoping they bloom the same as the orange plants to tie all this together. The aster was munched the first night by rabbits, so I've sprinkled cayenne pepper around the plants now. 

This is a small corner with plants from the rock and one prairie smoke plug. I'll update when the plants start filling out and (hopefully this year) blooming.