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Spring blossoms bring color to WNC

Plants expected to produce unusually vibrant colors, due to the mild winter and rainy weather

Springtime in Western North Carolina displays a beautiful illustration of color that lasts throughout the Summer.

The plants and trees are beginning to produce flowers which display vibrant colors such as pink, yellow, red, purple, blue, gold, and orange, which will exhibit more color than usual, due to weather conditions.

Fall in WNC is famous for its gorgeous display of multicolored foliage, but Spring delivers different types of colors from the wildflowers and blossoming plants, which are just as breathtaking as the fall foliage.

“Many travelers come to Haywood County to see the flowers throughout the year,” explains Lynn Collins, Director of the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority. “The colors during the spring are truly breathtaking, much like the fall foliage.”

If you are planning to make a trip to Western North Carolina this year, below you will find a list of bloom times for various plants in the area, with many of them budding in the spring and blossoming throughout the summer:

March April

Over sixty different flowers and plants grow during the springtime. Here’s a few you can expect to see:

• Trout Lilly, Bloodroot , Jack In The Pulpit, Oconee

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New tourism pitches unveiled in time for spring

 

In Western North Carolina, the natural landscape is an obvious and principl piece of tourism marketing campaigns. But tourism agencies have to ask themselves, “What makes their county different from others?” 

During the winter, county tourism agencies have been prepping their new taglines for debut in April advertising — just as tourism season is gearing up.

The Haywood County Tourism Development Authority will premiere a new marketing campaign centered on the tagline “Fresh from the N.C. Smokies,” which will be featured in each ad. 

The advertising strategy focuses on unique items found and made in Haywood County, including dulcimers, trout and a quilt trail — playing up a homegrown, homemade feel.

“They are trying to be true to who they are,” said Jay Sokolow, an account executive with The Tombras Group, a Knoxville-based advertising agency. “That’s important in any business.”

Haywood’s tourism agency has contracted with The Tombras Group for about seven years to design ads that appear in magazines from Our State to Southern Living to Smoky Mountain Living, on billboards and as banner ads on different websites. They developed a slate of magazine ad ideas with the new “Fresh from the N.C. Smokies” slogan, which was recently unveiled to the tourism board.

The ads

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