{"id":19947,"date":"2023-11-11T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondstogo.net\/wordpress\/?p=19947"},"modified":"2025-01-21T19:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:18:28","slug":"epcot-flower-and-garden-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondstogo.net\/wordpress\/epcot-flower-and-garden-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"From Topiaries to Tastings: EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Delights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Holy Grail of garden shows, the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival offers up extraordinary fare for gardeners and home improvement enthusiasts, with stunning landscape displays and advice from top gardeners, but it\u2019s the character topiaries who take center stage. And no wonder. This is Disney after all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPCOT FLOWER AND GARDEN FESTIVAL: TOPIARIES ON DISPLAY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Flower and Gardne Festival at EPCOT<\/a> delivers the largest display of character topiaries anywhere in the world, a fact made even more impressive when you consider the time and skill required to create each life-like figure. Crafted by gardeners, horticulturalists, irrigation specialists and even welders, it can take close to 60,000 blooms to bring each mesmerizing character into existence and hundreds of bedding plants to build the scene they call home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year, a new theme draws a host of characters into the limelight, some often coming out of hibernation just for the festival. While you can be sure to catch more than a glimpse of Mickey and his friends, Bambi as well as Thumper, Chip, Dale and more recently, Mater, have also made appearances in the park during the annual event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You never know who you might meet, turning the corner or walking down a main thoroughfare. A 14-foot tall Goofy became the tallest topiary ever at the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival in 2008, but stunning special effects have been known to keep guests on their toes. Chipmunks blowing bubbles, potted plants squirting water, and glowing jewels from the mine of the Seven Dwarfs have added dimension to past displays\u2014proof that Disney imagineers are always hard at work to make each year a new experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, horticultural experts invited special guests to join the characters. While the garden for Bambi and friends was the designated butterfly haven, it wasn’t uncommon to see these winged friends enjoying locations throughout the park. Again, you just never know who you might see hanging out at EPCOT’s Flower and Garden Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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