Mar 9, 2015

Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival | Magical Mickey

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Walt Disney World has a lot of great special events. Some are holiday related, others are seasonal. There is one that just started at Epcot, that I wanted to talk about in this week's post. This week I'll be talking about...


Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

Currently at Epcot is a celebration of springtime: the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. I had a chance to experience the tail end of this festival back in 2012. We took a trip where we experienced the last weekend of this festival AND got to go to Star Wars Weekend (but that's a topic for another post). And when I say "end" I mean we were there the last day, so I had some limited experience with the festival.


While this may not be the most popular of all the special events, it definitely is one of the prettiest. There are so many additional flowering displays, beautiful colors, wonderful smells. One of the largest parts of the displays are the topiaries, all locally grown and created. You'll see a whole cast of Disney characters spread through out the park.




If you want to see something special, at other times of the year you can see the preparation work for the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. On our honeymoon, we took the Backstage Magic tour. It is a fantastic 7 hour tour where you see all 4 parks. One the tour, you also see in the backstage area where they create the topiaries. While most of the tour you cannot take pictures, this is one area where you were able to. No only were we able to see some in process and growing, we actually were lucky enough to see one being made.




The festival also includes fresh seasonal food, a special Garden Rocks Concert series and special merchandise for all your gardening needs. You can even pick up some plants and seeds to give a try. There even are other special displays, such as this sand sculpture.


The Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival runs March 4th - May 17th this year and is included in park admission, so enjoy!

Have you ever been to the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival? Do you have a green thumb?


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11 comments:

  1. How wonderful that you got to see the "making" of these magical topiaries! We got to sneak down to Epcot yesterday for this year's festival and it's amazing as usual! A couple of new ones were added and the playgrounds are spectacular this year!

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    1. Yeah. It was really cool to see them making the stuffed topiaries.

      I completely forgot about the playgrounds! They looked cool. I'm sure my daughter would love them.

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  2. Looks like we all have spring on the mind! Your photos are beautiful and make me yearn to be there this year. Alas, your post will have to suffice!

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    1. I love all the posts that seemed to have the same thought. Clearly a lot of people who are simply done with the snow, haha. I would love to go see it right now too, but my pictures will have to suffice me too.

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  3. flower and garden looks awesome! I really need to plan a trip at some point over the next few years.

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    1. It really is a very pretty time to go see everything. They take so much care to the attention of the plants. It always amazes me that all of them are just so beautiful.

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  4. Wow! you got some great pictures of the process! The only time I have been able to see any of these is when they are displayed during race weekend in February. I get to see some, but not all.

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    1. Thanks. They are worth the look, for all the attention and detail they give them. Great care, much more of a green thumb needed than I have, haha.

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  5. Your pictures are gorgeous! We just had 6 inches of snow and temps in the single digits this last week, so it's really nice to see Spring in your photos!

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    1. Thanks. Yeah, I'm ready for spring to be here too. The pictures do help make it feel a little more spring like.

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  6. Thanks so much for the invite! I love EPCOT during the F&G festival...SO very pretty!! Great pictures! I think it's so neat you were able to experience the tour...what a cool thing to see!

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