With just over a week until the 2025 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival begins, crews have added more topiaries to the park and continue to prepare the Global Gardens.
World Celebration
The Phineas and Ferb topiaries returned for the first time in eight years. Since their installation a week ago, a bed of purple-pink flowers have been planted at their feet. A trio of giant pink flowers with topiary centers are behind them. These two topiaries are in a flowerbed behind Spaceship Earth, near the path leading to the Imagination! pavilion.
World Nature
The butterfly garden in World Nature is now enclosed with a white tent. The garden is still surrounded by green scrims.
It’s located behind The Land Cart.
Topiaries of Asha, Valentino, and Star from “Wish” have arrived in World Nature. they are in a flowerbed across the water from the butterfly garden.
This set of topiaries debuted with last year’s festival. They were at the front of the park but a new set of “Moana” topiaries will take their place this year.
Star in Asha’s hand will light up at night.
World Discovery
The Buzz Lightyear topiary has gone up in World Discovery. This is located in a flowerbed in front of Mission: SPACE. Buzz has one hand raised in a wave.
The detailed topiary includes his “Lightyear” nametag, the Star Command logo, and colorful buttons.
Behind Creations Shop is a playground. For the Flower & Garden Festival, it’s being turned into the Camp Get Out ‘N’ Play! Garden presented by OFF!
There’s a “Camp Get Out ‘N’ Play! Garden” sign at the playground entrance.
More signs throughout the playground space feature riddles and hidden objects. The one above reads, “On playing fields it’s often found. This thing is fun to kick around!”
After solving the riddle, find the answer in the image. The images depict sports equipment, a picnic table of crafts, and a scenic night.
The playground still has some spacey “WALL-E” theming. When it’s not themed to a festival, the playground is the WALL-E Green Landing Family Play Zone.
World Showcase
On the Rosewalk leading to World Showcase, there are now bee-themed props for The Honey Bee-Stro Outdoor Kitchen. During the EPCOT International Festival of the Arts, the kiosk was Pop Eats! Among the bee props is a honeycomb panel with pink flowers, which guests can put their heads through for a fun photo op.
There’s also a “Bees by the Numbers” board. Guests can stand next to this board to measure how many bees tall they are. The board also lists bee statistics like the average number of bees in a hive — 55,000.
This board features bee trivia. Guests can lift each honeycomb panel to see the answer to a question.
Trivia includes “How fast can a honey bee fly?” and “What makes a bee buzz?”
A larger-than-life butterfly topiary is now stationed outside the Port of Entry gift shop. The backs of the butterfly’s wings are covered in yellow flowers.
Germany Pavilion
After debuting last year, the Gnome Garden has returned for the 2025 festival. The garden features three round topiaries decorated to look like magical gnomes from German folktales. They’re in a flowerbed outside the restrooms.
One gnome wears a green hood. It has a red braided “beard” decorated with white flowers.
The center gnome has a tall pointed hat that curves in on itself. It’s dotted with patches of moss. The gnome’s face is almost completely covered by its beard.
The third gnome has a red hat with strips of moss and twigs. It has braids around its chin.
Also in the Germany pavilion are elevated buckets of flowers. These displays are in a flowerbed just a few yards from the gnomes.
Norway Pavilion
A snowflake topiary has been added to the flowerbed with Anna and Elsa. A trio of snowflakes is also in a flowerbed across the walkway. As we previously noted, the Elsa topiary has a new cape this year.
Mexico Pavilion
The horticulture team has installed several bold and colorful plants on the walkway next to the Mexico pavilion. This walkway usually features the Tropical Rainforest and Extraordinary Orchids gardens.
Sure enough, there are plenty of yellow and pink orchids in the space.
Some of the flowers are attached to trees. Others are blooming from ceramic pots.
There are clay pitchers among the plants. Last year, the Tropical Rainforest garden’s description read, “Uncover the rich biodiversity of the Mexican rainforest and learn about its highly adaptive species.”
The EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival is from March 5 to June 2, 2025. Check out the festival’s full menus.
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