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Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

Celebrating Spring

By Theresa Johnston, About.com

Flower & Garden

30 million bursting blooms at the International Flower and Garden Festival.

Photo courtesy of Walt Disney World
Now in its 15th year, the festival bursts into bloom earlier than ever on March 19th and keeps on blooming for a record 75 days - through June 1, 2008.

Whimsical character topiaries, brilliant beds of flowers, rose displays, water gardens and many more verdant exhibits set the scene around Epcot Future World and World Showcase for a garden party like no other. Guests can participate in daily seminars focused on gardening, crafts and other topics.

For youthful "green thumbs," there's plenty of fun, too, including a special children's garden, Growing Future Gardeners, which will feature family gardening projects. Minnie's Magnificent Butterfly Garden will return with hundreds of butterflies in a screened, walk-through enclosure that will include a live exhibit showing how caterpillars form a chrysalis and emerge as butterflies.

Themed festival weekends will celebrate art, bugs, and special events, including Mother's Day. Nightly Flower Power concerts will rock the landscape with live entertainment from top acts of the 1960s and '70s.

More information about the Annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival is available by calling 407/W-DISNEY (934-7639) or by visiting disneyworld.com/flower. The festival is included in regular Epcot admission.

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