Foothills Times January 2014 | Page 26

www.onewayantiques.com Antiques • Soap • Pottery • Mixed Media • Paintings • Jewelry • & More Saturday 10-6pm May 5 & 6, 2014 Sunday, 12-5pm One Way Antiques & Two Feathers Trading Show The Annual Arts, Crafts & Antiques Show at One Way in King. A wonderful collection of local and international arts and crafts exhibitors, along with food and wine vendors and live music both days. Featuring Music By: Big Ron Hunter Sunday starting at 2pm 127 Bob Rierson Street, King NC Down the road from the King Police Department Sponsored by: OO I Showcasing Local and International Artists 336.692.5262 or 336.978.5277 Spring in the Garden Judy Mitchell What a winter! I’m glad to see spring, aren’t you? Easter is late this year- April 20. We shouldn’t have to worry about frost this year. According to Accu-Weather, the average low for April 20 is 49 degrees and 72 degrees for a high. That sounds wonderful! Geraniums, mums, azaleas, and Easter lilies will be blooming. Spring flowering shrubs should be in full bloom by then or maybe finished blooming. Be sure that you wait to prune anything that blooms in the spring until after it blooms, so you don’t cut the limbs off before they bloom. Summer flowering shrubs may be pruned in March if they weren’t pruned in winter. As the weather warms, get some fresh air and sunshine working in your yard. Burn off those extra pounds you put on over Christmas. Plant a few vegetables. Leaf lettuce is fast to mature and can even be grown in a container. Pick a few leaves to put on a sandwich or make a salad. If any perennials froze in the winter, now is a good time to replace them. We started perennials in the greenhouse in January. They were then acclimated outside and are ready to plant now. You can divide daylilies now as they just start to emerge. Among other perennials that may be divided now are hosta, mums, liriope (monkey grass), coreopsis, and ajuga. If you have more than you need, share some with a Flowering Plants friend or neighbor. Enlist the help of children or grandchildren. I remember helping my grandmother & Lettuce in her flowers. She helped me create my own flower bed that I took care of for year