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Flower and Garden Festival 2025
One of the most beautiful festivals of the year has begun! The 2025 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary from March 5 to June 2, 2025.
I took a quick solo trip to Orlando for a dream-come-true FAM trip with Magic Bound Travel (don’t worry—you will find out in my next blog) and decided to check out opening weekend. Here are all the details from my one full day at the festival!
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We’ve shared in the past how much we love the Festival of the Arts at Epcot, and Wine and Dine, but another festival we try not to miss is the International Flower and Garden Festival.
The Epcot Flower and Garden Festival features gorgeous and elaborate Disney character topiaries, exhibits, gardens, and Festival-themed outdoor kitchens all around the park for delicious food, desserts, and drinks. Epcot festivals are included in the entry price of your Epcot admission ticket, but the food price is not included.
This is one of my favorite events to walk the entire park, taking photos while eating and drinking around the World Showcase! Three main things draw me to this festival each year – The Food, the Topiaries, and the Merchandise!
Have you ever heard of people drinking (and eating) around the world at Disney?
That’s at the World Showcase! Epcot’s World Showcase has eleven permanent countries centered around a beautiful lagoon. During festivals such as Flower and Garden, dozens of food and drink stands are added throughout the showcase.
What are the eleven countries represented in Epcot?
Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, the United States, Japan, Morocco, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada are the permanent countries in Epcot at Walt Disney World.
Flower and Garden 2025 Food Menus
How does the Food and Wine Festival work?
Upon entering Epcot for any Festival, you want to grab a “passport” and look through the menus. Once you know the items you’d like to try, start walking! The Epcot loop is about 1.2 miles, and we usually walk around it at least twice to see all the options and work off some of the calories. We always start in Mexico – yes, we are those people! (Unless we come in the back entrance, it’s France!)
Hot Tip: Go into the Port of Entry gift shops or the official Festival gift shops, buy a wristband gift card, and load it up with funds. Most items are $5-15 at the stands, and it’s super easy to order and scan your wristband gift card instead of pulling out cash or swiping a credit card dozens of times – also, you can set a budget much easier!
Each stand will also have a menu to show you the items and pricing with ingredients. Plus, there are some photos of the food and drinks. Next, you stand in line to place your order, get your receipt, then hand it to a lovely cast member, and they give you the food when it’s ready.
Your next step is to find a table (or a trash can- IYKYK) and enjoy it! Don’t forget to snap a photo, as the food and drink are usually worthy of an image. Then, at night’s end, it helps you remember what you tried. Don’t forget to mark it off on your passport!
Everything I ate at the Flower and Garden Festival
Most of the stands offer smaller portions or very shareable menu items. Two or more people can sample dozens of different menu items. We usually attend the festival two times during its run and make an effort to try new things each time. That is how we can successfully fill out our passports!
I enjoyed everything I tried in Mexico, China, Italy, Brunchcot, America, and Japan. I can’t wait to go back and try so much more!
Flower and Garden Topiaries
Besides the incredible and picture-perfect food and drink, you can enjoy the Topiaries and Garden displays all over the park. There are over 20 incredible displays throughout the park. I loved the newest topiaries for 2025, featuring Moana, Maui, Pua, HeiHei, and all the other classics.
Communicore Hall
Get a bee’s eye view of a larger-than-life garden in the transformed Communicore Hall space, which features a Farmers Fresh food booth and The Epcot Festival Almanac, celebrating 30 years of the Flower and Garden Festival.
Inside Out 2 Emotion Garden
There are also over 20 different Garden Destinations where you can stroll through a fresh collection of imaginative spring gardens maintained by the incredible Disney horticulture team.
The Merchandise
This year, the Flower and Garden Merchandise team outdid themselves! They released three exclusive collections for the festival featuring Alice in Wonderland, Orange Bird, and Spike! For the first time in history, I wanted to buy every single thing from the entire collection. Bravo!
Other Activities
Garden Rocks Concert Series
Enjoy live performances from renowned artists at the America Gardens Theater. Concerts are held nightly with three showtimes: 5:30 PM, 6:45 PM, and 8:00 PM. The 2025 lineup includes:
- March 30-31: Queensrÿche
- May 11-12: Maverick City Music
- May 23-24: The Outlaws
- May 30-31: The Cat Empire
- June 1-2: We The Kingdom
Scavenger Hunts
Maps can be purchased at Creations Shop, World Traveler, and Festival Markets for Spikes Pollen-Nation Exploration and Egg-Stravaganza. Search the entire park for hidden Spike Characters and colorful Easter eggs inspired by Disney Characters.
We’ve been attending this festival for several years now, and while many of the topiaries are the same each year, they do move them around, add new ones, embellish them, and change up the food and drink kiosks to keep it interesting!
I highly suggest attending this festival at least once, but if you like creative food and drinks, beautiful landscaping, and, of course, all things DISNEY, this festival will become an addiction every year! You have been warned!
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My favorite thing at this festival is the topiaries and the butterfly landing tent. I would always miss at least one of the topiaries… got to find them all.