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The "Whole Bloomin' Thing" Festival

The "Whole Bloomin' Thing" Festival

Each year on Mother's Day Weekend, the “Whole Bloomin Thing” Spring Festival brings flowery fun to Waynesville. This year the festival will take place 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 13, on Commerce and Depot streets in Frog Level. 

Haywood County’s spring festival kicks off the growing season with new excitement each year as The “Whole Bloomin’ Thing” Spring Festival continues to grow. Visitors can expect beautiful flowering baskets, vegetable and herbs, berry bushes, potted plants, trees and perennials, all in a beautiful assortment of color, size and variations. There will be fresh local produce and organic beef. Local food vendors will be on site from turkey legs, hot dogs, hamburgers and BBQ to ice cream, kettle corn, fresh squeezed lemonade and much more. 

Local artists will feature a wide range of nature-inspired gifts and handicrafts from baskets to beads, soap to stemware, bags to birdhouses, wreaths, jewelry and planters; wooden, clay and metal art work and dozens of original decorative creations. Live entertainment throughout the day will be provided by local artist as each year brings new local talent to the Spring Festival.

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