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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt'>Will pretty flowers draw tourists to Brevard?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Amid the seas of purple and pink and yellow
wildflowers in local parks and along the roadside, ecotourism advocates are
envisioning green -- the money that visitors would bring to the area to see the
natural blooms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>A niche called "wildflower tourism" is
starting to grow in Florida, and tourism officials say it may be the next big
thing -- possibly along the lines of viewing the changing leaf colors during
fall in New England. Local experts say May is when wildflowers are at their
peak viewing in this region. And this May has been better than in most years,
thanks to a colder-than-normal and wetter-than-normal winter that has led to
the intense blooms. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Read the story: <a
href="http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100520/NEWS01/5200314/1006/news01/New+plan+for+tourism+blooms+in+Brevard">http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100520/NEWS01/5200314/1006/news01/New+plan+for+tourism+blooms+in+Brevard</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Lisa Roberts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Florida Wildflower Foundation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a
href="http://floridawildflowerfoundation.org/buy_it_here.html"><span
style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=139
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style='color:gray'>Click on the icons above to explore <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='color:gray'>our Web site, FB page, blog or Twitter page<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='color:gray'>Florida Wildflower Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='color:gray'>PO Box 941066<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='color:gray'>Maitland, FL 32794-1066<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='color:gray'>407-353-6164<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='color:gray'><a href="http://www.floridawildflowerfoundation.org/"><span
style='color:gray'>www.floridawildflowerfoundation.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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