Disney World's Flower and Garden Festival is the longest-running garden festival in the U.S.: Here's how their horticulture team keeps things blooming

Walt Disney World's EPCOT International Flower
 and Garden Festival runs from early March through early July.
(Photo: Terri Peters)

Approximately 300,000 bedding plants and 100 themed topiaries will be on display at EPCOT over the course of the 127-day festival.

As anyone who's visited Florida can tell you, the temperatures stay pretty hot in the Sunshine State, especially in the spring and summer months. So Walt Disney World Resort's (WDW) team of horticulture specialists have quite a task during the EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival — an event celebrating all things that bloom and blossom, which runs from early March through early July.

Just how many flowers and plants adorn the theme park during the festival? Allison Brooks, a manager on WDW's horticulture services team, says EPCOT will add more than 300,000 bedding plants to its gardens this year and maintain 170 floating gardens to decorate Epcot's World Celebration West Lake, each of which contains about 50 four-inch annuals. Then there's the "flower towers," pillars of blooms designed to add vertical color to Epcot — each planted with 250 individual plants — and colorful raised beds that each hold about 140 annuals.

By Terri Peters.

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