Walt Disney World - Epcot, Part 8
Flower and Garden Festival
Festivals in Epcot
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The Flower and Garden Festival
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| Beauty and the Beast topiaries in France |
The horticulture cast members at Disney World always do a remarkable job with the greenery at the parks and the on-site resorts, but go into overtime and really do out-do themselves, creating topiaries, flower and plant arrangements all around Epcot. Over the past few years, there's been some definite creep of the Flower and Garden from World Showcase into Future World. But that's not a bad thing...
(They also go into overdrive mode when it gets below freezing, which kills some of the plants at the parks and resorts. Having frozen my butt off one trip, I can definitely say that is a bad thing. Heh.)
Not only are there seminars and talks with professionals, but there's a Flower Power concert series with bands from the 60's and 70's. Topiaries decorate every pavilion. Even Germany's train set gets a makeover.
Since many of the displays change from year to year, (especially the showcases, since they're usually tied into a movie), I'm segregating the pictures by year.
2005 Flower and Garden Festival
2011 Flower and Garden Festival
I was at Walt Disney World in May 2011 for D23's 40th Walt Disney World anniversary event, which happened to coincide with the Flower and Garden Festival. It was the first time I was at the Flower and Garden Festival with a decent camera (or more accurately a digital camera that had finally evolved beyond film's capability), and once again proved that beyond the initial cost outlay for the camera, batteries and memory cards, taking 100 images is as cheap as taking one. Anyway, the next hundred or so images are from the 2011 show.
Bambi's Butterfly Garden
They've had a butterfly garden at the Flower and Garden Festival for years, but I don't remember them to be as elaborate as the one now in Future World, just around the corner from Club Cool. The Bambi characters were very well done, though I suspect they cheated a bit...
Bambi's Butterfly Garden - F&G 2011
Pixie Hollow Fairy Garden
Fairies are big business these days. At least for Disney.Tinkerbelle has graduated from that snotty, vengeful little sprite into a talking member of a direct-to-video fairy world. So, come visit the Pixie Hollow Fairy Garden, where there's even a Fairy Meet and Greet, except the fairies are as big as you are and can't fly. I am clearly not in the intended demographic.
Pixie Hollow Fairy Garden - F&G 2011
Future World Topiaries
Disney has taken to planting a topiary wherever there's a patch of dirt during Flower and Garden, always to a theme. It was Pooh in 2011, the same year Winnie and the gang had a new movie. A coincidence, I'm sure...
Future World Topiaries - F&G 2011
World Showcase Topiaries
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| It was generally agreed that Lady and the Tramp in Italy was the best in show... |
World Showcase Topiaries
World Showcase Plaza, Mexico, China - F&G 2011
Outpost, Germany, Italy - F&G 2011
American Adventure, France, United Kingdom - F&G 2011
2012 Flower and Garden Festival
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| Even Germany's train set gets a makeover... |
End Epcot - Part 8.
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