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EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Full Menus are Here

The springtime Flower and Garden Festival started as the little cousin of the more popular Food and Wine festival. Over the years it has grown into a full fledged event adding food booths, more concerts, additional topiary, and special events that attract guests who make… Read More »EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Full Menus are Here

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Nine fresh new dishes added to EPCOT’s Flower & Garden Festival

The 2018 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival is entering its second weekend. We’ve already covered the five things you won’t want to miss on your visit, but today we wanted to focus on the food. We were invited by Disney to sample a selection… Read More »Nine fresh new dishes added to EPCOT’s Flower & Garden Festival

EPCOT Flower & Garden – Tasting the new Outdoor Kitchen dishes

The International Flower and Garden Festival sprouted a new season last week. The festival is now longer than ever with even more to enjoy. We were invited to attend a media day event over the weekend and sample some of the fantastic food dishes that… Read More »EPCOT Flower & Garden – Tasting the new Outdoor Kitchen dishes

What you need to know for the 2017 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival

The 2017 EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival kicks off today and there’s more to enjoy than ever before. The event now runs for 90 days which means more concerts, more celebrity guests, more seminars, and more food. Whether you’re a first time guest or… Read More »What you need to know for the 2017 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival

Installing EPCOT’s Entrance Flower & Garden Topiary Time-Lapse Video

At this year’s 23rd EPCOT International Flower & Garden festival, guests entering via the park’s main entrance are greeted by a farm to table theme featuring Disney’s most famous ducks – Daisy Duck, Donald Duck, and his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. I always look… Read More »Installing EPCOT’s Entrance Flower & Garden Topiary Time-Lapse Video

2013 EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival Details

Looking for something different that’s fun for kids and extra-special for grownups? Guests visiting Disney World from March 6th through May 19th can check out Epcot’s Flower and Garden Festival. First-time visitors with young children often overlook Epcot, assuming that it’s mainly for older kids, but there’s so much hands-on learning and fun at the Festival that a visit is well worth your time. In addition to flower towers, playgrounds, over 100 topiary, 240 floating mini-gardens, and countless beds with hundreds of blooms, this years festival offers a few surprises:

  • For the first time, Future World and the World Showcase will have illuminated gardens full of sparkly lights each night. I think this is my favorite new addition.
  • There will be a new circus-like play area based on the film Oz: The Great and Powerful, which is being released on March 8, 2013. The play area will feature various play systems that will cultivate your kids’ imagination while they exercise, red and white circus tents, and plants that will recall the movie.
  • The Garden Marketplace will feature drinks like Hot Sun Tomato Wine from a local Florida winery and everyone’s favorite Dole Whip, this time with spiced rum. There will also be non-alcoholic beverages like Frozen Desert Violet Lemonade.
  • Kids will love the all the topiary featuring their favorite characters, including Phineas and Ferb, Mike and Sully, and Tinkerbell and Friends.
  • A Radiator Springs interactive raceway located on the Test Track walkway will have Lightening McQueen and Mater in attendance.

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EPCOT Flower & Garden 2012 Concert Lineup Announced

The Flower Power concert series always brings an element of nostalgic fun to the yearly Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. Not only do the original fans of the band get to relive fond memories, but new younger audiences are introduced to these talented performers.… Read More »EPCOT Flower & Garden 2012 Concert Lineup Announced

EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival now sponsored by HGTV invites channel’s stars

Preparations are underway at Walt Disney World’s popular EPCOT theme park for the 18th annual International Flower and Garden Festival. It opens March 2nd and runs through May 15th. In addition to the usual fun exhibits and beautiful displays, Disney welcomes a new sponsor to the festival this year with the home improvement channel HGTV importing the celebrities and how-to that will help the festival bloom.

Also returning to EPCOT’s Flower & Garden Festival are Tinker Bell and her Pixie friends promoting the fourth and final (?) film in their direct-to-DVD series. That series continues to improve every year and Disney’s in park promotion for the pixies gets better too. Can’t wait to hear what they bring this year, I hear that they’re introducing a new winter pixie from the next film.

HGTV’s first-time sponsorship will feature weekend appearances by its acclaimed designers and landscaping experts. The star-studded lineup includes Genevieve Gorder, Lisa LaPorta, Kim Myles, Brian Patrick Flynn, Taniya Nayak, Ahmed Hassan, Patti Moreno, Michele Beschen, John Gidding, Frank Fontana, and Vern Yip.

“We are thrilled to welcome HGTV and so many of the network’s great Talent to Epcot this spring,” said Dan Cockerell, vice president of Epcot. “HGTV’s design and gardening personalities add an exciting, and entertaining new element to a festival that reinvents itself year after year.”

Expected appearance dates and more festival information is below the jump:

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