The Flower and Garden Festival is an absolute highlight of Spring in Walt Disney World, and has been since it began in 1994. The dates for the 2022 EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival were March 2 – July 4, 2022. As we await dates and information for the 2023 Flower and Garden Festival, you can find our 2022 coverage below for your future planning reference!
2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival
We’ll have all the details you need for this event here on DFB.
2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival
Click HERE to see the menus AND photos of all the food for the 2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival.
2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Index
2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Booth Menus and FOOD PHOTOS
2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Special Events
2022 Garden Rocks Concert Schedule
2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Gluten Free Items
2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Plant-Based Items
2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Merchandise
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How to Book EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Events
Many EPCOT Flower and Garden Events are free with your EPCOT Admission and require no advance booking. For more details on available events that do require a fee and advance booking, please see our Special Events page.
2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Coverage
EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Outdoor Kitchens
Outdoor Kitchens are set up on the Promenade and around EPCOT’s World Showcase Lagoon.
2022 Lotus House Outdoor Kitchen
The Outdoor Kitchens are similar to the Marketplace Booths for the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival in that they provide enhanced food offerings to guests at the Flower and Garden Festival.
Tangierine Cafe: Taste of the Medina Spread
There were 18 Food Booths for 2022 (plus a few specialty offerings at additional locations around the park) serving up fresh-from-the-GARDEN flavors!
Click HERE to find our MUST-EATS (and MUST-DRINKS) with The BEST of the FEST!
The Garden Passport is available to help you locate all the Outdoor Kitchens and keep track of everything you eat as a free souvenir.
You’ll find Passports at the EPCOT entrance and throughout the park
The Passports also provide information on all the daily ins-and-outs of the Festival.
2022 Flower and Garden Festival Passport
And we have a few helpful tools of our own! We created the 2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Map below that you could print or save to your phone. You can simply click the image to enlarge for easier reading and printing, and we’ll have a new one ready for you in 2023!
Click to enlarge the DFB 2022 Flower & Garden Festival Map
Additionally, we offer a free DFB Printable so you can check off all of your MUST-EAT food and drink items at the Festival!
Page 1 — Click to enlarge
Note that the 2022 Printable spanned TWO pages…
Page 2 — Click to enlarge
Again, simply click on the images to download and print or save them to your phone. On the pages, we note which items are new to the festival, which drinks are non-alcoholic, and which dishes are gluten/wheat friendly.
Garden Graze
The Garden Graze came back for 2022! Like the Cookie Stroll at the Festival of the Holidays, the Garden Graze is a plant-based food stroll through the Flower and Garden Festival.
2022 Garden Graze sign
Be sure to get your Festival Passport stamped at each location where you purchase a Garden Graze item so you can claim your prize!
Get Your Passport Stamped!
The 5 items for the 2022 Garden Graze were:
- Grilled Street Corn on the Cob with Savory Garlic Spread – Flavor Full Kitchen Hosted by AdventHealth
- Avocado Toast with Marinated Toy Box Tomatoes on Toasted Ciabatta – EPCOT Sunshine Griddle
- Grilled Baby Vegetables with Hummus Cream and Red Pepper Coulis – Trowel & Trellis Hosted by Impossible™ Foods
- Potato Pancakes with House-Made Apple Sauce – Bauernmarkt: Farmer’s Market
- Coconut Tres Leches: Vanilla Cake soaked in Oat Milk, Almond Milk and Coconut Milk with Toasted Coconut — La Isla Fresca
2022 Garden Graze Menu Items
Once you completed the Garden Graze you could visit Pineapple Promenade for your prize.
Completer Surprise
Click Here to Check Out Our Review of the Garden Graze
Garden Rocks Concert Series
The popular Garden Rocks Concert Series performances are free with EPCOT admission, and in 2022 they took place at the America Gardens Theater Friday through Monday; local bands rocked the house Tuesday through Thursday.
Garden Rocks 2022
You can see the full list of artists performing at the Flower and Garden Festival here, along with information about Garden Rocks Dining Packages, which pair lunch or dinner at a participating EPCOT restaurant with guaranteed seating for a Garden Rocks performance for that evening!
Click HERE for ALL of the Garden Rocks Concert Series and Dining Package information!
Entertainment for the 2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival
Jammin’ Gardeners (World Celebration)
Tap your feet to the syncopated sounds of the funkiest gardeners around!
Jammin’ Gardeners
You’ll find the JAMMitors, which become the Jammin’ Gardners for the Festival, in World Celebration!
Festival Passport Entertainment
Check your My Disney Experience app for show times!
Festival-Themed “Beacon of Magic” (Evenings in World Celebration)
Stroll by Spaceship Earth after the sun goes down, and you are in for an extra Festival treat! Spaceship Earth has a new permanent nighttime look with brilliant points of light all over the geodesic sphere. And — just for the Flower & Garden Festival…
“Can You Paint with ALL the Colors of the Wind?”
… Spaceship Earth featured a colorful light display each night inspired by the Disney film, Pocahontas, accompanied by the song “Colors of the Wind.”
See more photos and VIDEO of the Festival’s light show at Spaceship Earth!
Click here to see the menus AND photos of all the food at the 2022 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival!
More Flower and Garden Festival Fun
Free with EPCOT Admission
The Festival, including all Gardening Programs and Exhibits, is included in regular EPCOT admission (with a few additional activities typically available for participation at a low cost).
Sorcerer Mickey Topiary
And, of course, the gorgeous Disney Character Topiaries all around the park enhance everyone’s visit to EPCOT!
Peter Pan Topiary
For 2022, a new main entrance topiary display featured Goofy and a Walt Disney World 50th Anniversary themed birthday cake.
EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival
Other character topiaries include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Germany pavilion and Lumiere and Cogsworth welcoming you to the recently expanded France pavilion.
Captain Hook and Peter Pan
Three Caballeros Topiaries
Here is the COMPLETE LIST of 2022 Disney-themed topiaries and their locations:
- Goofy Topiary and Walt Disney World 50th Anniversary Celebration Cake – Main Entrance
- Sorcerer Mickey Mouse, Brooms, Ostriches, Hippo and Gator – Entrance to World Showcase
- Woody, Bo Peep and Her Sheep – near The Land Pavilion in World Nature
- Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie – Bridge to World Showcase
- Pluto and Chip ‘n’ Dale – The American Adventure Pavilion
- Buzz Lightyear – near Mission: SPACE in World Discovery
- Figment – near Imagination! in World Celebration
- The Three Caballeros (Jose, Donald and Panchito) – Mexico Pavilion
- Anna and Elsa – Norway Pavilion
- Troll – Norway Pavilion
- Dragon – Japan Pavilion near Torii Gate
- Pandas – China Pavilion
- Simba and Friends (Rafiki, Simba, Mufasa and Sarabi) – Between Imagination! and The Land Pavilion
- Pumbaa and Timon – Between Imagination! and The Land Pavilion
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Germany Pavilion
- Lady and the Tramp – Italy Pavilion
- Beauty and the Beast – France Pavilion
- Lumiere and Cogsworth – France Pavilion
- Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy – Germany Pavilion
- Peter Pan, Captain Hook and Tick Tock Croc – Between the United Kingdom and Canada Pavilions
- Winnie the Pooh and Friends (Rabbit, Eeyore, Piglet and Tigger) – United Kingdom Pavilion
- Tinker Bell’s Fairy House Garden – United Kingdom Pavilion
- Bambi and Friends – near Imagination! in World Celebration
Miss Piggy
Global Gardens
A springtime stroll around EPCOT will present opportunities to enjoy beautiful Gardens all around the park!
Blossoms of Fragrance Garden
The Bambi Butterfly House, for instance, allows guests to visit beautiful butterflies each day until dusk.
Butterfly Topiary
And at Outdoor Escapes Presented by OFF! Repellents, guests are able to unwind in refreshing spaces that may just inspire you to create your own garden escape for friends and family back home.
Outdoor Escapes
From a Tropical Rainforest Garden in the Mexico pavilion, to the English Tea Garden and Shakespeare Garden in the United Kingdom, to a Bamboo Garden in China, and MUCH more, you’re only just steps away from finding the next spring-inspired scene!
Here is the COMPLETE LIST of Global Gardens for 2022:
- Blossoms of Fragrance Garden Presented by Scentsy (NEW) – World Showcase Bridge
- Outdoor Escapes Presented by OFF!® Repellents – World Discovery
- Floating Gardens – World Nature
- Festival Blooms – World Celebration
- Bambi’s Butterfly House – World Nature near Imagination!
- The Honey Bee-stro Hosted by National Honey Board® – Rosewalk near Imagination!
- Health Full Trail Presented by AdventHealth – Imagination! Walkway
- Tropical Rainforest Garden – Mexico Pavilion
- Extraordinary Orchids – Mexico Pavilion
- Bold Bromeliads – World Nature by The Land Pavilion
- China Zodiac Garden – China Pavilion
- Bamboo Garden – China Pavilion
- Alpine Miniature Garden – Germany Pavilion
- Garden Italiano – Italy Pavilion
- Kokedema Garden – Japan Pavilion
- Bonsai Collection – Japan Pavilion
- Spice Garden – Morocco Pavilion
- France Bouquet Garden (NEW) – France
- English Tea Garden Presented by Twinings® — United Kingdom Pavilion
- Shakespeare Garden – United Kingdom Pavilion
- Prehistoric Garden – World Discovery near Mission: SPACE
- Green Landing Family Play Zone – World Discovery
The Festival Passport will let you know where to find them all!
Garden Destinations in Festival Passport
Fan of the Disney film Encanto enjoyed a garden surprise near the La Isla Fresca booth in 2022. You could visit Vibrante & Verde: An Encanto Garden, located between the Morocco and France pavilions in EPCOT!
Vibrante & Verde: An Encanto Garden
Here you could take a look at a tropical garden inspired by members of the Madrigal family.
Topiario de Mariposa
P.S. Keep an eye out for LIVING Hidden Mickeys in the displays!
Living with the Land
When you take a relaxing boat ride on the Living with the Land attraction in The Land pavilion in World Nature, you’ll see a celebration of plants that you can eat with the Edible Flower Garden.
Edible Flower Garden in Living with the Land
The ride, which takes guests through greenhouse displays of food crops, dons some extra vibrant color, thanks to the flowers, during the Festival!
Edible Garden inside Living with the Land — Violet Lemonade display
Health Full Trail
The Health Full Trail Presented by AdventHealth welcomes the whole family to learn ways to stay healthy at the garden along the Imagination walkway in keeping with the Flavor Full Kitchen Hosted by AdventHealth.
2022 Health Full Trail
The Health Full Trail was available at the Festival once again in 2022. Here, families could also enjoy a Mind Full retreat…
Mind Full
… or a Play Full one (to encourage some exercise)!
Play Full Retreat
No matter which activity you choose, you’ll be surrounded by lovely blooms!
Health Full Trail Garden
Low-Cost Activities
Egg-Stravaganza and Spike’s Pollen Nation Exploration
More fun for the whole family is Spike’s Pollen Nation Exploration!
Spike’s Pollen-Nation Exploration Scavenger Hunt
The Disney honeybee named Spike pollinates his way around the festival and guests can follow his trail!
Can you SPOT SPIKE?
Guests may purchase a map and stickers (in 2022, the cost was $9.99 plus tax) and fill in the map as they search for the plants Spike has pollinated.
Spike’s Pollen-Nation Exploration 2022
When the map is complete, guests can return it to Disney Traders or World Traveler for a springtime surprise! In 2022, you could choose one of four reusable containers, each featuring different characters and colors.
Scavenger Hunt Prizes
Click here to check out Spike the Bee’s Scavenger Hunt to see what all the BUZZ is about!
The Egg-Stravaganza Scavenger Hunt returned as an extra Easter-season activity for 2022! It began on March 31st for a limited time.
Eggstravaganza!
When this activity is available, guests can purchase a map and stickers (in 2022, the cost was $9.99 plus tax) and hunt for Disney character “eggs” throughout World Showcase.
Where’s Minnie?
When you find all the “eggs” you can return your map to Disney Traders for a “sp-egg-tacular surprise.”
Our Eggstravaganza prize!
Learn more about Egg-stravaganza here!
EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Special Events and Tours
Several garden tours have been offered for previous Festivals. In 2022, we enjoyed a complimentary self-guided tour in the English Tea Garden Presented by Twinings® in the United Kingdom Pavilion.
Self-Guided Tea Tour
Guests could simply visit The Tea Caddy shop and ask a Cast Member for information on how to begin. When you finish your self-guided tour, return to The Tea Caddy and let a Cast Member know you’re finished.
Self-Guided Tea Tour
After that, you could pick two free tea bags to take home!
Additional tours were not available for 2022, but we are sharing some examples from previous years below for your future planning reference!
UK Tea Garden
The Royal Tea Garden Tour offered tea connoisseurs an opportunity to learn more about the plants and blooms that go into making their favorite cuppa. In previous years, tours were held Monday through Thursday at 3:30PM and 5PM, and Friday through Sunday at 1PM, 3:30PM and 5PM, with sign up for the tour taking place inside The Tea Caddy.
Gardens of the World has also been offered in previous years, and you can find the details here for future planning.
Festival Merchandise and Novelty Items
A full range of Festival merchandise will be available to commemorate your visit to the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival.
Merchandise information in the Garden Passport
Look for items including apparel, glassware, kitchenware and magnets all bearing logos of the Festival and its attractions.
EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival Mug
You’ll find everything from gardening gear to upscale collections as well, including designer handbags.
Dooney Bags
In 2022, guests could look for collections featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Figment, Spike the Bee and the Orange Bird.
Orange Bird Spirit Jersey
Flower & Garden Festival Limited Edition MagicBand
Flower and Graden Festival Clothing
“Plant Lady” Shirt
Of course, this is just a SMALL glimpse… you can see it ALL here!
Click HERE to see photos of ALL the 2022 Flower and Garden Festival merchandise!
Additionally, guests could keep an eye out at the Festival’s Outdoor Kitchen food booths for a returning favorite (and VERY affordable) souvenir, the Spike the Bee SPORK!
Look for this sign at the Festival’s Outdoor Kitchens
For $2.50, this reusable utensil provides both a great tool for eating around the Festival AND a cute souvenir to take home!
Spike the Bee Spork
Click here to see the BUZZ over the Spike the Bee Spork!
And, joining the Festival goodies in June, a NEW Little Golden Book themed to ORANGE BIRD made its debut at The Citrus Blossom!
The Orange Bird Little Golden Book
Click HERE to see more of The Orange Bird Little Golden Book!
Flower and Garden Festival PhotoPass Magic Shots
Magic Shots are special, digitally-enhanced shots available through Disney’s PhotoPass service that create a unique and memorable souvenir.
©Disney PhotoPass
Three Magic Shots were initially released for the Flower and Garden Festival, and you can see them here! Throughout the Festival, more Magic Shots are often added for more PhotoPass fun.
©Disney
PhotoPass photographers can be found all over the park, and you can simply let them know if you’re interested in a Magic Shot.
Annual Passholder Perks
Walt Disney World Annual Passholders can typically purchase exclusive Festival merchandise just for Passholders! Passholders can also usually use their 20% discount on merchandise at the Festival.
Passholder Exclusive MagicBand
We hope you join us here at the DFB for ALL of the Festival FUN that’s blooming up all over EPCOT in the spring!
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