Cricket's Garden Native Wildflower Nursery & Photography

Upcoming Event

2012-04-15T07:44:00.000-07:00

Cricket's Garden will be at the following event with native wildflowers on display:

Wednesday, April 18, 2012. 7:30 p.m. White Pine chapter monthly meeting in conjunction with Palouse Audubon Society
Topic: Landscaping with Native Plants with Wildlife in mind
Speakers: Members of each organization will present the program
Location: 1912 Center, Great Room, 412 East Third St., Moscow, Idaho (between Adams and Van Buren)

This is a joint meeting of Palouse Audubon and INPS White Pine Chapter. Garden-worthy native plants that provide food, shelter, protection, and nesting habitat for wildlife will be discussed.

Cricket's Garden Native Wildflower Nursery Open Saturday

2011-06-09T07:10:00.000-07:00

Cricket’s Garden Native Wildflower Nursery will be open Saturday, June 11th, 2011 from 9 am to 1 pm at 716 Shoshone St. Moscow, ID. We will have a variety of wildflowers available for the garden, landscape and restoration. Check out my current inventory on my website at http://www.cricketsgarden.com/

Contact me at christine@cricketsgarden.com if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Christine

I Heart Faces Photo Challenge - Soft and Sweet

2011-05-01T07:58:00.000-07:00

This week's photo challenge on I Heart Faces http://www.iheartfaces.com/ is Soft and Sweet. My submission is my daughter looking sweet with her favorite soft stuffed animal, a Scentsy Buddy, Molly the Monkey. Love her sweet grin and the way she loves her Molly.

I Heart Faces Photo Challenge Shadows

2011-04-10T13:13:00.000-07:00

This weeks I Heart Faces Photo Challenge is Shadows http://www.iheartfaces.com/ . I took this picture of my daughter yesterday when we actually had some sun out. It created a great shadow. It has been pretty gray around here and not like spring at all. It was nice to play outside while the sun was out. She is ready to take some great photos too.

Spring Snow

2011-04-07T20:16:00.000-07:00

Woke up to a covering of snow this morning. Was really hoping that it would soon warm up so the wildflowers would start growing. The daffodils I have by the house have been blooming for a couple days but they looked pretty sad this morning covered in snow. :( The weekend is supposed to be nicer, so I am wishing for sun and warmer temps. Have lots of work to do outside.

Spring Here?

2011-03-27T16:07:00.000-07:00

I think spring has finally sprung despite the snow covering we woke up to. I found the first bloom of grass widows in my yard today. My favorite wildflower! Hope you enjoy my first wildflower pic of 2011.

I Heart Face Slice of Life Photo Challenge

2011-03-27T15:29:00.000-07:00

Thought I would try the photo challenge again. This weeks photo challege on I Heart Faces http://www.iheartfaces.com/ is "Slice of Life". I thought this photo of my daughter fit with the theme of how curious babies are. She spent a long time peering into the mirror at herself. So cute!

I Heart Faces Photography Contest - Anything but a Face

2011-02-28T19:48:00.000-08:00

Well, I have never tried this before, but a friend of mine pointed me to this great website about photography... http://www.iheartfaces.com/ Each week they have a contest on a specific theme. So this week I thought I would enter a photo on "Anything but a Face". Here it is! My girls!

Back to blogging

2011-02-22T15:54:00.000-08:00

Well, I am back to blogging. After working on my website and my facebook page for awhile, I decided I wanted to start over on my blog. I hope you like the new look of the blog. I am going to add more photographs and more information in the future.

Also, I really have spring fever. Hopefully spring is on its way but the snow we got today says mother nature has other ideas. I thought I would post a pic of one of my favorite early spring wildflowers...sagebrush buttercup

Also, I added a slideshow of some of my wildflower photographs. You can also see a larger version on youtube. Hope you enjoy it!

Wildflower of the month for April

2010-04-11T07:51:00.000-07:00

Cricket's Garden Wildflower of the month for April is yellow bells, Fritillaria pudica. Check out the link to find out more information about the early spring bulb. http://www.scribd.com/doc/29741878/Fritillaria-pudica

Featuring Wildflower of the Month for March 2010

2010-03-21T12:33:00.000-07:00

Spring is officially here! Since we have been busy working to get our plants ready for spring, we thought we would try to feature one wildflower each month. So for March, the flower of the month is grass widows, Sisyrinchium inflatum. Click here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/28219999/Sisyrinchium-inflatum to see our pdf file describing grass widows and how to use them in the landscape. Please let us know if you have any questions about this plant. Also check out our webpage for updates on our inventoryhttp://www.cricketsgarden.com/. Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.

Spring is on its way

2010-03-07T21:07:00.000-08:00

Hello! This is my first post to my blog. I am new to this but I think it will be fun. It has been a very mild winter here in the Inland Northwest and temperatures have been above normal for awhile. I am definitely getting spring fever. I have been watching my pots where I have plants that I planted last year. I have been worried about the plants surviving winter. I am sure the mild winter helped but I was so excited to see that plants are starting to wake up and sending out new shoots. See the pictures above. The greenish pink leaves are sticky geranium and the dark purple green leaves are Mule's ears.