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Fast Facts
- EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival runs from March 5 to June 2, 2025.
- New to the 2025 festival are two fresh Outdoor Kitchens and a playground, all inspired by the neighboring Beach and Yacht Club Resorts.
- Characters from "Moana 2" will make their topiary debuts this year.
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind will operate using a standby queue (in addition to being offered as a Lightning Lane Single Pass) for this year's festival.
- Admission to Flower and Garden Festival is included with your EPCOT ticket.
The EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival is the perfect combination of delicious food, beautiful greenery displays and horticultural learning experiences. The park blossoms into a beautiful garden of sights, sounds and tastes of the spring season. This year — the festival's 30th anniversary (!!!) — runs from March 5 to June 2, 2025. Here's everything you should know about the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival 2025!
EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival 2025 Overview
Move aside, Food and Wine ... EPCOT Flower and Garden is one of our favorite festivals of the year! The park blossoms with lush gardens full of bright flowers — we love the spring vibes! It's a great way to celebrate the season and enjoy the beautiful weather. The 2025 festival kicked off March 5 and runs through June 2, so there's lots of time to enjoy all the sweet offerings. We'll also get to explore CommuniCore Hall during this festival for the first time this spring! Inside, we'll get to learn how Disney's Horticulture team brings the topiaries and floral displays to life for the festival.
Enjoy delicious food from Outdoor Kitchens, exquisitely crafted topiaries of our favorite characters and beautiful themed gardens. Even if you don't have a green thumb, you will still find plenty to enjoy. While I technically have a green thumb, I must confess I'm not much of a gardener and still enjoy this festival. Tad and Lily love looking at all the "topies," plus a scavenger hunt, a butterfly house and special seasonal displays and merchandise will keep you and your tadpoles busy all day! Leap and I love ending the night at the Garden Rock Concert Series with world-known artists performing on the weekends, along with viewing special projections on Spaceship Earth. And don't froget our favorite part of any festival ... the food! EPCOT Flower and Garden plates up fresh favorites highlighting fresh, seasonal ingredients.
Best of all — the festival is included with regular park admission! When you enter the park, be sure to pick up the Festival Passport! It includes detailed information about the topiary and garden destinations, entertainment and the Outdoor Kitchen menus. It came in handy for planning our day, as well as making sure we didn’t miss out on anything new. You can also find this digitally in the My Disney Experience app.
What's better than live music, colorful flowers and lots of yummy food? Hop along with us, as we share all of the "deets" about this fun, flowering festival!
Sculpted Topiaries at EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival
I’ve never left the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival without nagging Leap to re-do our landscaping. Inspiration is everywhere! Disney’s expert team of horticulturists works year-round to create beautiful landscapes across the park. Look for the topiaries at the main entrance and scattered all around World Showcase, World Celebration, World Discovery and World Nature. EPCOT Flower and Garden exhibits its talent with incredible life-size recreations of beloved Disney characters. Stunning in the daylight, the topiaries take on a whole new life as the gardens and sculptures are illuminated at night.
Many topiaries repeat each year, with some new ones popping up as well. In 2025, "make way" for Maui, Moana, Heihei and Pua topiaries! Here's the full list of 2025 toparies and where they're located:
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- Moana, Maui, Heihei and Pua from "Moana" – Park entrance
- Figment & Flowers – World Celebration Plaza
- Phineas and Ferb – World Celebration Plaza
- Donald, Huey, Dewey and Louie – Near Connections Cafe & Eatery
- Groot – World Discovery
- Buzz Lightyear – World Discovery Near Mission: SPACE
- Bambi and Friends – Near Refreshment Port
- Asha, Valentino and Star – World Nature
- Woody, Bo Peep and Her Sheep – World Nature Near the Land Pavilion
- Simba and Friends (Rafiki, Mufasa and Sarabi) – Between Imagination! and The Land Pavilion
- Pumbaa and Timon – Between Imagination! and The Land Pavilion
- Goofy – Rosewalk
- Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Chip, Dale and Pluto – Bridge to World Showcase and World Celebration
- Mirabel, Antonio, Isabela and Luisa from "Encanto" – World Showcase
- Miguel and Dante from "Coco" — Mexico
- Anna and Elsa – Norway
- Troll – Norway
- Pandas – China
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Germany
- Lady and the Tramp – Italy
- Princess Tiana – The American Adventure
- Dragon – Japan
- Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy – Between France and Morocco
- Beauty and the Beast – France
- Lumiere and Cogsworth – France
- Tinker Bell's Fairy House Garden – United Kingdom
- Peter Pan, Captain Hook and Tick Tock Croc – United Kingdom
- Winnie the Pooh and Friends (Rabbit, Eeyore, Piglet and Tigger) – United Kingdom
- Geese – Canada
- Butterflies – Main Entrance and International Gateway
Themed Gardens at EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival
The festival features almost two dozen themed gardens and other destinations throughout the park — from the Shakespeare Garden in the United Kingdom pavilion to a miniature garden display in Germany. New in 2025, we made sure to stop by World Celebration to see the "Inside Out 2"-inspired garden.
While fun and educational for everyone, we really appreciate how these exhibits teach our tadpoles how to create gardens and provide wildlife habitats … if pond life hasn’t taught them enough already!
A festival favorite, Butterfly Landing is full of colorful blooms and a flurry of several species of butterfly. Find it between The Land and the Imagination! pavilions. Explore the life of a butterfly from its emergence from chrysalis to adulthood and watch as the fully-grown butterflies flutter around the garden from flower to flower. You might even find a butterfly has alighted on you, especially if you’re wearing a flowered dress or shirt. This is the only place where a female will pay attention to Leap when he's wearing his loud floral aloha shirts. (I kid, but not much.)
Kids' Activities at EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival
At EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival, tadpoles have flower and garden activities specifically for them. Every year, there are play gardens that surround your tadpoles with lush natural landscapes and playscapes. In 2025, there's a new play garden for the tadpoles to explore: Playalong Bay Play Garden presented by Smucker's Uncrustables. Paying homage to one of our favorite resort pools, Stormalong Bay, over at Disney's Beach & Yacht Club Resort (within walking distance of EPCOT, we may add!), this nautically-inspired playground can be found between the Imagination! pavilion and the entrance to World Showcase.
The scavenger hunt, Spike's Pollen Nation Exploration, keeps the tadpoles on their webbed toes. It typically costs around $9.99 and takes little ones on an "I Spy"-style adventure throughout World Showcase. Once completed, tadpoles return the map to Creations Shop or World Traveler for a surprise reward — either Spike the Bee, Orange Bird, the Caterpillar from "Alice in Wonderland" or Mickey Mouse watering can! This is a low-cost way to keep your tadpoles occupied and receive a cute souvenir as a result. Worth it!
(For those wondering, Spike the Bee first appeared in early Mickey Mouse cartoons in the 1940s and has returned in some most recent series. He is an unofficial mascot of the festival!)
EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival Menus
I'm an epicurean amphibian. It's fun to see the topiaries and gardens, but my favorite plants are the ones I can eat! While EPCOT's Food and Wine Festival is known for its delectable tastes and treats, EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival is my favorite place to snack, thanks to its unique, fresh ingredients. In 2025, there are also two new Outdoor Kitchens, also inspired by nearby Walt Disney World Resort hotels: Yacht Grub and Beach Grub. Menus have officially blossomed for 2025 — see what's available in this blog post!
A perfect first stop to your day is the delightfully named "Brunchcot" booth with Avocado Toast for me and the Fried Cinnamon Roll Bites to share. That's right ... delicious melt-in-your-mouth morsels rolled in cinnamon and sugar and topped with cream cheese frosting and candied bacon. Tad and Lily raved about them! Another on our list is a festival staple — the nonalcoholic Frozen Desert Violet Lemonade. Yum! We always enjoy the Bauernmarkt: Farmer's Market in Germany and the Honey Bee-stro kitchens.
Meanwhile, Tad is always on a mission to collect stamps for the Garden Graze (looks like I just *had* to have the avocado toast ... hehe). Collect five stamps with any of the following items (any time during the entirety of the festival), and you'll receive a complimentary treat.
The 2025 Garden Graze items are:
- Lumpia with plant-based pork, green papaya salad and yuzu sweet-and-sour (The Citrus Blossom)
- Lemon Tart with lemon curd, blood orange fluid gel, aquafaba meringues and raspberry powder (The Citrus Blossom)
- Grilled Street Corn on the Cob with savory garlic spread and “cheese” (Beach Grub)
- Farmhouse Meatball featuring IMPOSSIBLE Beef with Lentil Bread, Spinach, Marinated Vegetables and creamy herb aïoli (Trowel & Trellis)
- Avocado Toast with marinated tomatoes and plant-based cheese crumbles on toasted ciabatta (BRUNCHCOT)
- Biscuit and Gravy featuring IMPOSSIBLE Sausage with pepper jelly (BRUNCHCOT)
- Jamaican Beef Patty featuring IMPOSSIBLE Beef with spicy papaya syrup (Refreshment Outpost)
- Seasonal Fruit Parfait with sweet chili sauce and DOLE Whip Mango (Refreshment Outpost)
- Potato Pancakes with house-made applesauce (Bauernmarkt)
- Coconut-Chocolate Flancocho: Chocolate Cake, Coconut Custard and Passion Fruit Caramel (La Isla Fresca)
EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival Concerts
It’s not all sunshine and butterflies at EPCOT Flower and Garden … there’s music too! At the America Gardens Theatre, guests may dance and sing along to classic songs by a wide array of renowned artists with the Garden Rocks Concert Series.
Garden Rocks Lineup 2025
- March 5-6: Evolution Motown
- March 7-8: Tommy DeCarlo, former lead singer of Boston
- March 9-10: Air Supply — 50th Anniversary Celebration
- March 11-13: Rico Monaco Band
- March 14-15: Blue October
- March 16-17: Rick Springfield
- March 18-20: Icon Party Band
- March 21-22: Herman's Hermits starring Peter Noone
- March 23-24: 38 Special
- March 25-27: SoundUp
- March 28-29: Jason Scheff, longtime singer of Chicago
- March 30-31: Queensrÿche (New!)
- April 1-3: Glass Ceiling
- April 4-5: THE ORCHESTRA Starring ELO and ELO Part II Former Members
- April 6-7: Sugar Ray
- April 8-10: The M-80's
- April 11-12: Simple Plan
- April 13-14: Jo Dee Messina
- April 15-17: 4NRS Journey
- April 18-19: Mike DelGuidice
- April 20-21: A Flock of Seagulls
- April 22-24: Element
- April 25-26: Taylor Dayne
- April 27-28: 98 Degrees
- April 29-May 1: The Hooligans
- May 2-5: Plain White T's
- May 6-8: Hayfire
- May 9-10: Jon Secada
- May 11-12: Maverick City Music (New!)
- May 13-15: Dian Diaz
- May 16-17: The Spinners
- May 18-19: The Pointer Sisters
- May 22: Southbound
- May 23-24: The Outlaws (New!)
- May 25-26: Don Felder, formerly of the Eagles
- May 27-29: Latin Ambition
- May 30-31: The Cat Empire (New!)
- June 1-2: We The Kingdom (New!)
Performances occur at 5:30 p.m., 6:45 p.m. and 8 p.m. Be sure to get there at least 30 minutes early because seats can fill up quickly for popular artists (during the weekdays, there may be local bands performing, in which case you can typically arrive closer to showtime). If you want to secure a good spot without waiting, dining packages are available for booking. You can reserve a meal at EPCOT anytime throughout the day, and come back later to a special seating area at one of the evening shows! We recommend this if you’re big fans and want primetime viewing.
Merchandise at EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival
You may want to pack an extra duffle bag for your merch. There are always too many items to choose from. We are huge fans of all EPCOT festivals, but we find Flower and Garden has the most gorgeous, fun merch. Visit any of the festival markets located throughout the park, as well as Creations Shop and the Odyssey, to find different Flower and Garden collections featuring Orange Bird, Spike the Bee and more. This year, for the festival's 30th anniversary, there's even more special merch to choose from, complete with an anniversary logo.
EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival 2025 lets you discover fresh tastes, gorgeous gardens and all the information you need to have a bounteous spring. The EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival is included with regular park admission. Got questions or comments? Share them below!
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Hoppy planning!
