{"id":113,"date":"2010-04-22T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/?p=113"},"modified":"2022-05-05T13:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T17:31:42","slug":"flower-and-garden-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/flower-and-garden-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower and Garden Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">By Heather Lewis<\/p>\n<p>The 17th Annual Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot is currently running through May 16. The festival, themed &#8220;Celebrate the Great Outdoors,&#8221; features flowers, topiaries, demonstrations, and even special weekend concerts. Here is a peek at just some of the beautiful displays from this year&#8217;s festival.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/tripplanning\/news\/ms\/2010\/images\/flower\/Entrance.jpg\" width\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Entrance\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Guests are welcomed at the entrance with Goofy, Daisy, and Donald in a camping scene.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/tripplanning\/news\/ms\/2010\/images\/flower\/Dolphins.jpg\" width\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Dolphins\" \/><br \/>\n<em>As you approached the World Showcase lagoon, a school of dolphins reminded guests of Disney&#8217;s upcoming movie Oceans, which opens in theaters on Earth Day (April 22).<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/tripplanning\/news\/ms\/2010\/images\/flower\/pixie.jpg\" width\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Pixie\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Tinker Bell and her friends from Pixie Hollow also made an appearance again this year. There is even a play area for the preschoolers in this location.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/tripplanning\/news\/ms\/2010\/images\/flower\/farm.jpg\" width\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Farmer Mickey and Minnie\" \/><br \/>\n<em>In front of the Lagoon, Mickey and Minnie were tending to their crops in this American Gothic-inspired topiary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/tripplanning\/news\/ms\/2010\/images\/flower\/ladytramp.jpg\" width\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Lady &#038; Tramp\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Throughout World Showcase, many Disney characters made appearances in or near their home countries. Lady and the Tramp were in Italy, enjoying a stroll after dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/tripplanning\/news\/ms\/2010\/images\/flower\/snowwhite.jpg\" width\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Snow White\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Snow White and the seven dwarfs were near a character meeting spot in Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/tripplanning\/news\/ms\/2010\/images\/flower\/BeautyBeast.jpg\" width\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Beauty &#038; Beast\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Belle &#038; Beast were facing the Lagoon in France.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/tripplanning\/news\/ms\/2010\/images\/flower\/Imagination.jpg\" width\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Imagination\" \/><br \/>\n<em>In addition to the topiaries, there were also the perfectly designed landscaping arrangements that guests expect from Disney.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/tripplanning\/news\/ms\/2010\/images\/flower\/butterflygarden.jpg\" width\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Butterfly Garden\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The ever popular Butterfly Garden was crowded, and home to as many butterflies as ever. The butterfly garden is part of the expanded Pixie Hollow display this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/tripplanning\/news\/ms\/2010\/images\/flower\/Sign.jpg\" width\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Sign\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you go&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are festival activities throughout the park, so park admission is required.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to grab a festival map when you enter the park. This will highlight the special events and locations of topiary displays. It helps to ensure you don&#8217;t miss anything in your tour.<\/li>\n<li>The Flower Power concert series is held Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 5:15, 6:30 and 7:45 p.m. in the American Gardens Theater. Featured acts are from the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s.<\/li>\n<li>There is festival-exclusive merchandise at select locations throughout the park. There is a selection of gardening items, posters, and trading pins, among other items. Be on the lookout for the flamingo from Fantasia wearing Mickey ears.<\/li>\n<li>Check out the American gardener series, which features demonstrations from popular gardeners.<\/li>\n<li>There is even an iPhone app to help your find your way through the festival (just in case a festival map is too low-tech). The app costs 99 cents, and is available through iTunes.<\/li>\n<li>For more information about this year&#8217;s festival, visit our page found here. There is a link to the official festival map there are well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Heather Lewis The 17th Annual Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot is currently running through May 16. The festival, themed &#8220;Celebrate the Great Outdoors,&#8221; features flowers, topiaries, demonstrations, and even special weekend concerts. Here is a peek at just some of the beautiful displays from this year&#8217;s festival. Guests are welcomed at the entrance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79454,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/79454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}