Epcot Flower and Garden Festival
Epcot holds the "International Flower and Garden Festival" each year in
late April and early May. The exhibits are truly spectacular -
colorful flower beds, floating islands of flowers, whimsical gardens,
and imaginative topiaries.
The following includes some of the photos I have taken the past
two years of the Flower and Garden Festival - I especially have
concentrated on the topiaries, because I think they are so well done.
Hope you enjoy!
The 1999 theme was "Flower Power" - a throwback to the psychedelic
60's. The Epcot Entry Plaza was *very* colorful. :-)
One of the butterflies
On the east side of Future World are David Rogers' "Big Bugs" wood
sculptures.
big ant
butterfly
dragonfly
praying mantis
another flying bug
At the World Showcase Plaza is the "Fantasia Topiary Garden", including
Sorcerer Mickey (as seen at the top of the page), and also:
Dancing Hippo and Alligator
Singing Elephant
Heading back to World Showcase, and around the World (clockwise)...
- Mexico
- orchid garden
- purple orchids close-up
- red orchids close-up
- Norway - Poinsettia Tree, pictured here.
- China
- mist-breathing dragon topiary (one of
my favorites)
- African Outpost - beautiful Lion King topiaries
- Rafiki and Simba
- Germany
- Snow White
- The 7 Dwarfs
- The miniature train village was also
all decorated for spring.
- Italy - Hercules and Pinocchio topiaries - which spray water at
unsuspecting passers-by. :-)
- Hercules, Meg, and Phil
- Pinocchio and Gepetto
- America - featured this beautiful Mickey and Minnie topiary
- Japan - bonsai trees, water garden, mural
- flowering bonsai tree
- another bonsai tree
- yet another bonsai tree
- iris mural (photograph ©
Debbie Wills, and used with permission)
- Morocco
- Aladdin topiary
- France
- Beauty and the Beast topiary
- Cogsworth topiary
- United Kingdom
- Rabbit topiary
- Tigger topiary
- Pooh topiary
- Eeyore topiary
- Mary Poppins topiary
- Canada
- Bambi and Thumper topiaries
- Garden with wood animals and fountain (1998)
- Fountain and flowers
Along the waterway that goes from Epcot back to the International
gateway is this very colorful fleur-de-lis - the one pictured here
was taken in 1999, this one was
the 1998 version.
Back on the International Gateway walkway was this
Donald Duck topiary.
Text and photographs copyright © 1999, by Laura Gilbreath and Lee
Zimmerman. Feel free to link to this document, but you may not
redistribute it in any form without the express written consent of the
copyright holder.
Laura Gilbreath, lgil@cts.com
Last updated 6/16/99
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