On May 2 our staff grabbed gardening gloves and headed to Denver’s Curtis Park neighborhood to spend a morning planting trees and making Denver more beautiful.

We volunteered with dozens of others for the “Green Street” program, organized by Rebuilding Together Metro Denver and sponsored by HGTV. It aims to beautify and revitalize urban communities while helping the environment through improved air quality.

The day’s volunteers planted an estimated 60 trees - a step toward the program’s goal of getting 1 million trees rooted in various U.S. cities by 2025. We plan to drive by them periodically to see how they’ve grown.

I’m most curious about one unruly, stick-like sapling and whether or not it will take hold.