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Ultimate Guide To Epcot's 2018 International Flower & Garden Festival
Disney World welcomes back the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival for 2018 from February 28th to May 28th. This natural blooming phenomena takes over Epcot Theme Park for over 120 days to amazing Disney guests with flowers, topiaries, special food, amazing live concerts, and interactive seminars. The amazing part is that the majority of this Festival is included with your regular Epcot theme park admission!
Flowers, Flowers, and More Flowers!
The special gardens and displays that the Disney horticultural team put together for this festival are nothing short of amazing. From massive flower beds to the most amazing container gardens you will walk away wanting to add some elements of what you see to your own home gardens and flower beds.
Topiaries of All of Your Favorite Disney Characters
If you are not familiar with the Disney Character topiaries than prepare to be amazed. Each year for the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival Disney creates over 20 different character topiaries that are truly stunning. Whether you are a fan of Mickey Donald, Pluto, Goofy, or perhaps one of the Disney Princesses you will not be disappointed.
Amazing Food Options Presented In Outdoor Kitchens
One of the most recent additions to the Epcot Flower & Garden Festival are the Outdoor Kitchens. These are similar to what Disney World fans may be used to seeing at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, but with a totally different offering of dishes and treats. This completely different menu of entrees and dishes makes the experience special and unique to this Festival.
Garden Rocks Concert Series
Disney World has gotten better each year at attracting top flight talent to perform at the America Gardens Theater during the Flower & Garden Festival. The Festival lineup includes many artists that dominated popular radio airplay during their heyday in the 80's & 90's. The fact that the concerts are FREE is a major bonus for Epcot Festival patronsSeminars and Others Flower & Garden Related Presentations
Whether you are learning to create your own Container Garden or make your own Topiary, there are a variety of FREE seminars to enjoy during the Flower & Garden Festival to help you cultivate your own "green thumb".
Plan Your Epcot Flower & Garden Festival Vacation Now!
What are you waiting for? Epcot never looks better than it does during the Flower & Garden Festival. Add in amazing food options and FREE live concerts from some amazing artists and you quickly see why you should be making your reservations right now!2015 Garden Rocks Concert Series Schedule Announced For Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival
There is a new name for the concert series that accompanies the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival for 2015. The Garden Rocks Concert Series replaces the Flower Power Concert series. With the new name comes a new focus on the lineup of music acts that are performing. There are several added to the list that formerly performed during the Eat To The Beat Concert Series at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival.
There are a total of 11 pop music acts performing during the Flower & Garden Festival from March 4 - May 17, 2015.
2015 Epcot Garden Rocks Concert Schedule
Performances are at America Gardens Theatre at 5:30, 6:45 and 8:00 p.m. every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and are included with Epcot admission. Check out this year’s lineup (subject to change without notice):Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival Returns for 2015 - March 4 - May 17
The 22nd Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival returns during 2015 for 75 dazzling days from March 4 through May 17! This Disney World fan favorite brings flowers, gardens, topiaries, guest gardeners & speakers, outdoor music concerts, and Outdoor Kitchens featuring great food & drink to Epcot.
The Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival is FREE with your paid admission to Epcot and most of the activities are included.
Great Disney Character Topiaries
One of the highlights of each Flower & Garden Festival is the amazing array of Disney Characters portrayed in topiary form. From Mickey Mouse to Cinderella, many of your favorites can been seen in spectacular live fashion.
The princess topiaries are often the favorites of the Disney World crowds, but it is hard to choose between Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, or Snow White to decide on a favorite.
Millions of Flowers and Blooms
The Disney World Horticultural Staff outdoes themselves each year, by planting countless flowers and gardens that provide millions of blooms during the 75 day event. The hardest part is trying to decide which of the presentations is your favorite.
Whether you are a fan of container gardens or colorful beds of flowers, there are certainly a multitude of displays for you to enjoy.
Outdoor Kitchens
Stealing a page from the always popular Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, the Flow & Garden Festival has found its way to provide unique food & beverage offerings through a series of Outdoor Kitchens that are placed throughout Epcot's World Showcase.
Great Time To Vacation At Disney World
The Epcot Flower & Garden Festival gives you a great excuse to schedule a Spring vacation to Disney World in Florida. This is one Disney Special Event that you do not want to miss!Disney World Topiaries Are Star Of Epcot International Flower & Garden Show
Winnie The Pooh fans will love seeing this fanciful representation of everyone's favorite resident of the Hundred Acre Wood.
Not too far away from Winnie The Pooh you can find his friends Piglet & Eeyore.
Tigger always brings a smile to my face.
Rabbit certainly looks at home in the garden with that excellent bunch of carrots.
Some of Disney's best known characters can also be seen in topiary form. Above you can see Daisy Duck.
Donald Duck can't wait for you to take his picture!
This is an adorable scene with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, & Pluto flying a kite during a picnic lunch.
There are plenty of Disney Princesses to be found skillfully recreated as topiaries. Here you find not only Snow White, but the seven dwarfs as well.
Aurora dances through the flowers with Prince Phillip.
The characters from the Disney Animated Classic Peter Pan come to life in this scene. Here you see Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and Tick-Tock the crocodile.
Although she is not in the scene with Peter Pan, don't feel sorry for Tinkerbell. She has her own Pixie Hollow area where you will find Tinkerbell and her Fairy friends amongst some very beautiful gardens.
Lady and The Tramp have been wonderfully transformed into topiaries amongst this stunning container garden.
Aladdin welcomes you to his garden.
The Lion King created many memorable scene like this one with Rafiki and young Simba.
This topiary of Pumba will bring a smile to any face.
Timon is ready for a tasty snack of assorted bugs.
Not all of the topiaries are of Disney Characters. This topiary scene with the pandas is wonderful and absolutely fits in the China Pavilion at World Showcase.
Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival
Do yourself a favor and make plans to visit Epcot this spring to experience the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. The topiaries are amazing and they are just a part of all there is to see and experience during the Festival.
Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival Returns For 19th Year At Disney World
The normally spectacular Epcot landscaping gets even better as the Disney World horticultural staff does an amazing job each year.
Here is the Disney Press Release with details of the 2012 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival:
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – A little gardening magic will go a long way when an eight-foot-tall floral Sorcerer Mickey topiary holds court at the entrance to the 19th Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival March 7-May 20 at Walt Disney World Resort. Standing atop a 12-foot-tall floral mountain cliff and towering above the park’s front-entrance topiary bed, the commanding Sorcerer Mickey will direct a riot of color in the manicured shapes of dancing broomsticks, buckets, mushrooms, hippos, alligators and elephants straight from the classic Disney film, “Fantasia.”
Disney topiary specialists worked to create the striking new design with innovative materials and recycled elements from years past, says festival horticulture manager Eric Darden. An earlier version of Sorcerer Mickey stood less than five feet tall; a larger frame was built, Darden says, to more accurately reflect the character in the front-entrance Fantasia scene. The new Fantasia “mountain” grew from a 2003 topiary piece that once held a “Steamboat Willie” Mickey Mouse display.
“The challenge is to use our resources, repurpose them, and keep them fresh every year,” Darden says. “These are some of our most popular characters from a topiary standpoint, and ‘Fantasia’ was a groundbreaking film for its music and animation techniques.”
The front-entrance floral spectacle will welcome guests to a festival packed with new displays, featured speakers and hands-on fun for all ages.
Don’t Miss!
For 75 festival days, Epcot guests can explore topiaries and gardens, learn planting, style and design techniques and rock to the tunes of popular Flower Power concerts:
•Bambi’s Butterfly House, three times the size of the festival’s original, will be a-flutter with multiple species of brilliant butterflies. At Imagination Walkway by Innoventions West.
•Pixie Hollow Fairy Garden - Fabulous Disney fairy topiaries alight to greet young fans who enter this whimsical garden designed with play structures for children ages 2-5. At the Test Track Walkway.
•The HGTV Designers Stage will present HGTV celebrities each Friday through Sunday and nationally recognized garden personalities Monday through Thursday. At the Festival Center.
•The Flower Power concert series will welcome back 20th century pop favorites this year when Jose Feliciano, Chubby Checker and The Wildcats, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Davy Jones and seven other bands rock the America Gardens Theatre with their timeless tunes. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Performers and appearance dates subject to change.
Petal Power
Thirty million blooms, 240 floating mini-gardens on two ponds, 700 container gardens of flowers, herbs, plants and vegetables, dozens of Disney character topiaries, 30 “flower towers” of impatiens and sweeping beds of floral designs will create a tapestry of brilliant color across the 260-acre Epcot landscape. It takes more than one full year and 400 Walt Disney World horticulturists to plan and prepare for the 75-day festival. One of the most interesting challenges is finding just the right plant materials to bring the park’s topiaries to life.
The front-entrance “Fantasia” rock cliff topiary will be carpeted with a “blackish-purple Ajuga,” says Disney plant specialist Heather Will-Browne. White and blue flowers will represent streams of water tumbling down the rock face, she adds, and the “Fantasia” theme will be carried out with masses of hot pink geraniums, blue delphiniums, white poppies, violet petunias and blue pansies, among others. Other show-stopping character topiaries: Lightning McQueen and Mater from “Cars 2″ at the Japan showcase; Buzz, Woody and Lotso the teddy bear from “Toy Story 3;” and the Fab Five – Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto and Goofy — outside the Festival Center.
The horticulture team also will plant new landscape looks outside the Italy and Norway pavilions, Will-Browne says. In Italy, gardeners will display a mix of containers overflowing with bright flowers and pots of fragrant herbs used in Italian cuisine. Around Norway, “we’ll do a white show of geraniums, violas, snap dragons, poppies and alyssum,” she says. A small Norway meadow will feature “a mass of brilliant, wild mixed color.” Each of the park’s other nine World Showcase countries will feature special festival landscape elements.
More Festival Fun
•The Festival Center- Guests can shop for festival merchandise, attend demonstrations and get ideas and tips from master gardeners. In Future World between Universe of Energy and Mission:SPACE.
•Disney Gardening at Home presentations - Disney horticulturists will share gardening tips and lead guests in a hands-on, take-home activity at the Festival Center.
•Special Festival Weekend Celebrations - An Art in the Garden celebration of plein air artists is scheduled March 23-25; a Florida Federation of Garden Clubs gathering will be April 27-29; and a Fresh from Florida Farmer’s Market salute is slated for May 4-6.
More information about the 19th annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival is available by calling 407/W-DISNEY (934-7639) or by visiting disneyworld.com/flower when festival time approaches. The festival, including all gardening programs and exhibits, is included in regular Epcot admission.
Epcot 2012 Flower Power Concert Series Line-Up
Date Performer Known For
March 9 to 11 Jose Feliciano Light My Fire
March 16 to 18 Starship Starring Mickey Thomas We Built This City
March 23 to 25 The Guess Who American Woman
March 30 to April 1 The Spinners Cupid
April 6 to 8 Chubby Checker The Twist
April 13 to 15 Paul Revere & The Raiders Good Thing
April 20 to 22 The Turtles Happy Together
April 27 to 29 Chuck Negron Formerly of Three Dog Night Black & White
May 4 to 6 The Orchestra Starring Former Members of ELO Don't Bring Me Down
May 11 to 13 Herman's Hermits Starring Peter Noone I'm Henry VIII, I Am
May 18 to 20 Davy Jones I'm A Believer
