Walt Disney World has introduced new additions for the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, together with the tip date and a sneak peek on the new topiaries, resort hotel-inspired meals cubicles, and way more. We’ve all of that, plus commentary in regards to the springtime occasion.
For starters, the EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant will run from March 5 to June 2, 2025 at Walt Disney World. The beginning shifts barely later, however the length of the pageant is kind of unchanged. Like final 12 months, the occasion is a full month shorter than it was from 2021 by means of 2023, however in keeping with historic precedent up till 2020.
Additionally like final 12 months, it’s doubtless that the EPCOT Meals & Wine Pageant will begin round Labor Day weekend, leaving a roughly 3-month window of Eating regimen EPCOT…or a brand new summer season pageant. We’re not holding our breath on that this 12 months, however Walt Disney World does want one thing at EPCOT to supply counter-programming to Epic Universe for locals. However that’s past the scope of this submit. For every little thing else that you must know in regards to the occasion, see our Final Information to the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant Information. This submit solely covers what’s new to the pageant for 2025.
In the course of the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, company can discover lush gardens, pattern candy and savory bites with refreshing sips (for a price, in fact!), and store new merchandise collections that includes Orange Fowl, Spike the Bee, and extra. Beginning at sundown, a vibrant spectacle of sunshine will likely be proven on Spaceship Earth, with the Beacons of Magic returning for an additional seasonal show.
Greater than 200,000 bedding vegetation are added to the gardens of EPCOT for the Flower & Backyard Pageant, together with an extra 60,000 bedding vegetation that create the enduring floral designs that make up the World Celebration East & West Lakes. Plus greater than 70 topiaries, that includes a pleasant array of Disney characters in addition to different figures and eccentric objects, will fill the park.
Disney Horticulture and Walt Disney Imagineering work collectively to design, construct and develop topiary shows. Beginning over a 12 months in the past, this course of started with artists growing sketches, Imagineers designing 3D fashions, expert welders molding frames, and horticulture specialists selecting plant supplies.
Right here’s a rundown of what’s new for the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant–beginning with these topiaries!
New Topiaries
A brand-new topiary show that includes characters from Moana will greet company on the park entrance. Make means for Moana, Maui Heihei, and Pua will likely be added to the gathering of elaborate plant sculptures which have turn into a pageant staple. Crafted with an artist’s cautious eye and the horticulturalists’ loving care, these new topiaries would be the good welcome to company strolling into the park for a full day of floral enjoyable.
Plus, Phineas and Ferb topiaries make their grand return! Different topiaries showing on the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant embrace characters from Inside Out, Figment, Miguel & Dante from Coco, and Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy.
For particulars about different nice gardens and topiaries on the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant, view the occasion information within the My Disney Expertise app—obtainable beginning February 27, 2025.
New Gardens
The brand new Playalong Bay Play Backyard pays homage to considered one of Walt Disney World’s famed resort swimming pools, Stormalong Bay at Yacht & Seashore Membership, mixing enjoyable for the entire household with journey on the excessive seas. This new nautically impressed playground will likely be situated between the Creativeness pavilion and the doorway to World Showcase.
Different gardens will have a good time vogue, neighborhood, tenting, perfume, and Inside Out 2.
New Meals Cubicles
Close to the Playalong Bay Play Backyard, you’ll discover two new Out of doors Kitchens with menus filled with seafood goodness: Yacht Grub and Seashore Grub. These are the primary meals cubicles impressed by Walt Disney World resort inns at Flower & Backyard. (And to one of the best of our data, any of the EPCOT festivals.)
For those who’re questioning the place returning favourite Out of doors Kitchens Florida Recent and EPCOT Farmers Feast will likely be (and we very a lot had been–these are two of one of the best cubicles!) – they are going to be in new areas at CommuniCore Plaza on the servery window and inside CommuniCore Corridor, respectively. Phew.
We love the thought of Yacht Grub and Seashore Grub. It’ll be fascinating to see if Walt Disney World really does menus impressed by these resorts, or if they simply needed puns that work with the backyard. Both means, this can be a nice concept going ahead. There are a number of resort inns with fan-favorite meals that may very well be featured at EPCOT festivals.
This was seemingly teased final 12 months with the Zebra Dome (by a distinct title) at Meals & Wine. However might you think about an Animal Kingdom Lodge sales space with Sanaa bread service, African Potjie from the Mara, Wild Boar or Venison from Jiko, and Zebra Domes?! With AKL not precisely simply accessible, this could be an enormous win for company with restricted time–or exposing new followers to the greatness of AKL’s culinary scene.
As for Yacht & Seashore Grub, I’ll preserve my expectations low: I simply need the Oreo Bon Bons for dessert, and possibly truffle fries as a aspect. That looks as if low-hanging, crowd-pleasing (not) fruit to associate with the seafood.
New Merchandise
Have fun the thirtieth Anniversary of the EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant from head to toe with an identical shirt and shorts set or a shiny new spirit jersey, each that includes everybody’s favourite citrusy buddy, Orange Fowl, and the thirtieth anniversary emblem.
For followers of Spike the Bee, you possibly can pack your backyard social gathering odds and ends inside a cute Lug Bag that’s sweeter than honey. You’ll really feel proper at house touring across the park with a Spike the Bee Shoulder Plush. There’s additionally an Alice In Wonderland assortment, and doubtless different stuff, who is aware of.
Merchandise isn’t my jam, so I don’t have sturdy opinions about most of these items. (Okay, besides one–how are these Lug Luggage so costly?! They’re glorified cellphone circumstances. I believed Spirit Jersey pricing was bonkers, however this takes the cake.)
Oh, and I additionally unironically love the orange Orange Fowl shirt and shorts. I do know it’s “the fashion” to put on matching stuff like this, however as somebody who’s decidedly unstylish, the shorts will suffice for me. Walt Disney World did a pair of Orange Fowl sweat shorts a number of years in the past as a part of an identical product line, and I nonetheless put on them round the home.
New Magic Pictures
PhotoPass has some artistic new methods to sprinkle additional pixie mud over visitor photographs through particular Magic Pictures that supply a bouquet of cool returning results, in addition to two new photographs – together with the brand new Figment Topiary Magic Shot above.
I admire that Walt Disney World continues so as to add PhotoPass Magic Pictures, particularly the sort that function bodily props or results, and never simply character overlays in submit (though these are enjoyable, too). We discover ourselves utilizing PhotoPass an increasing number of now with Megatron as a result of it’s simply simpler, so I’ve a newfound appreciation for the service.
Subsequent up, spend money on some new cameras and lenses. I assume Disney has a company alliance with Nikon, so use that to get new our bodies and glass. It’s been means too lengthy because the final improve and main enhancements have been made. (A number of the outdated gear can be in actually tough form, each aesthetically and optically.)
New Grooves
Additionally returning for the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant is the favored Backyard Rocks Live performance Sequence within the America Backyard Theatre. See Backyard Rocks Concert events on the EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant: Dates, Lineup & Eating Packages for every little thing that you must know and the total lineup. Together with acquainted favorites, there are 5 new performers:
- March 30-31 – Queensrÿche (NEW)
- Could 11-12 – Maverick Metropolis Music (NEW)
- Could 23-24 – The Outlaws (NEW)
- Could 30-31 – The Cat Empire (NEW)
- June 1-2 – We The Kingdom (NEW)
New Gallery at CommuniCore Corridor
There’s a brand new exhibit on the brink of bloom at CommuniCore Corridor! Right here’s precisely what Walt Disney World stated about this: “Get a bee’s eye view at CommuniCore Corridor, with a brand new gallery that’s bigger than life! Seize a chunk at EPCOT Farmers Feast and be taught extra about how Disney’s Horticulture group brings topiaries, flower towers and extra to the EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant.”
Does this imply it’s going to be themed to Spike the Bee, we’re all going to shrink right down to his measurement, and every little thing goes to be huge. In that case, cool. However I additionally query whether or not there’s the area inside for enormous shows. Additionally, why would Disney spend the cash fabricating larger-than-life ‘making of’ stuff for Flower & Backyard once they have already got the common sized-stuff sitting round someplace?
Both means, it sounds cool. And that is definitely an enchancment over having CommuniCore Corridor perform as a glorified merchandise location together with an uninteresting meals sales space. Talking of which, EPCOT Farmers Feast is usually amongst our favourite cubicles of Flower & Backyard. I’m each excited to see it have the bigger kitchen and likewise a little bit nervous that placing it on this area will end in a extra crowd-pleasing or boring menu. It was near-perfect earlier than!
Finally, the lineup for the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant sounds stable. Whereas I’d like to get again to having the Fab 5 characters on the entrance entrance, at the least Moana is an enormous enchancment over Want. Considerably shocked that isn’t Inside Out 2, however topiaries take months to develop, so this was in all probability set in movement final spring when inner expectations had been that Moana 2 would outperform Inside Out 2. Not like both had been slouches, and Moana ties properly to Journey of Water simply across the nook.
My solely criticism is identical one I had final 12 months (12 months earlier than that, and so on.), which is that Figment needs to be the park’s unofficial mascot and ambassador for all festivals, not simply Pageant of the Arts. I’m undoubtedly biased, however extra Figment would imply a extra fashionable occasion with followers, which in flip would assist promote much more Figment merchandise (…and in flip enhance the percentages of a brand new attraction!). In any case, we’re actually trying ahead to the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant. The primary couple months of this pageant are amongst my favourite of the 12 months at EPCOT.
Planning a Walt Disney World journey? Find out about inns on our Walt Disney World Lodges Opinions web page. For the place to eat, learn our Walt Disney World Restaurant Opinions. To economize on tickets or decide which sort to purchase, learn our Suggestions for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets submit. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys submit takes a novel take a look at intelligent objects to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney World Journey Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, one of the best place to start out is our Walt Disney World Journey Planning Information for every little thing that you must know!
YOUR THOUGHTS
Are you excited to expertise the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant? Ideas on the resort hotel-inspired backyard or meals cubicles? Trying ahead to the brand new topiaries from Moana at EPCOT’s entrance or the return of Phineas and Ferb? Opinions on the rest coated right here? Any questions we will help you reply? Listening to suggestions about your experiences is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
Walt Disney World has introduced new additions for the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, together with the tip date and a sneak peek on the new topiaries, resort hotel-inspired meals cubicles, and way more. We’ve all of that, plus commentary in regards to the springtime occasion.
For starters, the EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant will run from March 5 to June 2, 2025 at Walt Disney World. The beginning shifts barely later, however the length of the pageant is kind of unchanged. Like final 12 months, the occasion is a full month shorter than it was from 2021 by means of 2023, however in keeping with historic precedent up till 2020.
Additionally like final 12 months, it’s doubtless that the EPCOT Meals & Wine Pageant will begin round Labor Day weekend, leaving a roughly 3-month window of Eating regimen EPCOT…or a brand new summer season pageant. We’re not holding our breath on that this 12 months, however Walt Disney World does want one thing at EPCOT to supply counter-programming to Epic Universe for locals. However that’s past the scope of this submit. For every little thing else that you must know in regards to the occasion, see our Final Information to the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant Information. This submit solely covers what’s new to the pageant for 2025.
In the course of the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, company can discover lush gardens, pattern candy and savory bites with refreshing sips (for a price, in fact!), and store new merchandise collections that includes Orange Fowl, Spike the Bee, and extra. Beginning at sundown, a vibrant spectacle of sunshine will likely be proven on Spaceship Earth, with the Beacons of Magic returning for an additional seasonal show.
Greater than 200,000 bedding vegetation are added to the gardens of EPCOT for the Flower & Backyard Pageant, together with an extra 60,000 bedding vegetation that create the enduring floral designs that make up the World Celebration East & West Lakes. Plus greater than 70 topiaries, that includes a pleasant array of Disney characters in addition to different figures and eccentric objects, will fill the park.
Disney Horticulture and Walt Disney Imagineering work collectively to design, construct and develop topiary shows. Beginning over a 12 months in the past, this course of started with artists growing sketches, Imagineers designing 3D fashions, expert welders molding frames, and horticulture specialists selecting plant supplies.
Right here’s a rundown of what’s new for the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant–beginning with these topiaries!
New Topiaries
A brand-new topiary show that includes characters from Moana will greet company on the park entrance. Make means for Moana, Maui Heihei, and Pua will likely be added to the gathering of elaborate plant sculptures which have turn into a pageant staple. Crafted with an artist’s cautious eye and the horticulturalists’ loving care, these new topiaries would be the good welcome to company strolling into the park for a full day of floral enjoyable.
Plus, Phineas and Ferb topiaries make their grand return! Different topiaries showing on the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant embrace characters from Inside Out, Figment, Miguel & Dante from Coco, and Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy.
For particulars about different nice gardens and topiaries on the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant, view the occasion information within the My Disney Expertise app—obtainable beginning February 27, 2025.
New Gardens
The brand new Playalong Bay Play Backyard pays homage to considered one of Walt Disney World’s famed resort swimming pools, Stormalong Bay at Yacht & Seashore Membership, mixing enjoyable for the entire household with journey on the excessive seas. This new nautically impressed playground will likely be situated between the Creativeness pavilion and the doorway to World Showcase.
Different gardens will have a good time vogue, neighborhood, tenting, perfume, and Inside Out 2.
New Meals Cubicles
Close to the Playalong Bay Play Backyard, you’ll discover two new Out of doors Kitchens with menus filled with seafood goodness: Yacht Grub and Seashore Grub. These are the primary meals cubicles impressed by Walt Disney World resort inns at Flower & Backyard. (And to one of the best of our data, any of the EPCOT festivals.)
For those who’re questioning the place returning favourite Out of doors Kitchens Florida Recent and EPCOT Farmers Feast will likely be (and we very a lot had been–these are two of one of the best cubicles!) – they are going to be in new areas at CommuniCore Plaza on the servery window and inside CommuniCore Corridor, respectively. Phew.
We love the thought of Yacht Grub and Seashore Grub. It’ll be fascinating to see if Walt Disney World really does menus impressed by these resorts, or if they simply needed puns that work with the backyard. Both means, this can be a nice concept going ahead. There are a number of resort inns with fan-favorite meals that may very well be featured at EPCOT festivals.
This was seemingly teased final 12 months with the Zebra Dome (by a distinct title) at Meals & Wine. However might you think about an Animal Kingdom Lodge sales space with Sanaa bread service, African Potjie from the Mara, Wild Boar or Venison from Jiko, and Zebra Domes?! With AKL not precisely simply accessible, this could be an enormous win for company with restricted time–or exposing new followers to the greatness of AKL’s culinary scene.
As for Yacht & Seashore Grub, I’ll preserve my expectations low: I simply need the Oreo Bon Bons for dessert, and possibly truffle fries as a aspect. That looks as if low-hanging, crowd-pleasing (not) fruit to associate with the seafood.
New Merchandise
Have fun the thirtieth Anniversary of the EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant from head to toe with an identical shirt and shorts set or a shiny new spirit jersey, each that includes everybody’s favourite citrusy buddy, Orange Fowl, and the thirtieth anniversary emblem.
For followers of Spike the Bee, you possibly can pack your backyard social gathering odds and ends inside a cute Lug Bag that’s sweeter than honey. You’ll really feel proper at house touring across the park with a Spike the Bee Shoulder Plush. There’s additionally an Alice In Wonderland assortment, and doubtless different stuff, who is aware of.
Merchandise isn’t my jam, so I don’t have sturdy opinions about most of these items. (Okay, besides one–how are these Lug Luggage so costly?! They’re glorified cellphone circumstances. I believed Spirit Jersey pricing was bonkers, however this takes the cake.)
Oh, and I additionally unironically love the orange Orange Fowl shirt and shorts. I do know it’s “the fashion” to put on matching stuff like this, however as somebody who’s decidedly unstylish, the shorts will suffice for me. Walt Disney World did a pair of Orange Fowl sweat shorts a number of years in the past as a part of an identical product line, and I nonetheless put on them round the home.
New Magic Pictures
PhotoPass has some artistic new methods to sprinkle additional pixie mud over visitor photographs through particular Magic Pictures that supply a bouquet of cool returning results, in addition to two new photographs – together with the brand new Figment Topiary Magic Shot above.
I admire that Walt Disney World continues so as to add PhotoPass Magic Pictures, particularly the sort that function bodily props or results, and never simply character overlays in submit (though these are enjoyable, too). We discover ourselves utilizing PhotoPass an increasing number of now with Megatron as a result of it’s simply simpler, so I’ve a newfound appreciation for the service.
Subsequent up, spend money on some new cameras and lenses. I assume Disney has a company alliance with Nikon, so use that to get new our bodies and glass. It’s been means too lengthy because the final improve and main enhancements have been made. (A number of the outdated gear can be in actually tough form, each aesthetically and optically.)
New Grooves
Additionally returning for the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant is the favored Backyard Rocks Live performance Sequence within the America Backyard Theatre. See Backyard Rocks Concert events on the EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant: Dates, Lineup & Eating Packages for every little thing that you must know and the total lineup. Together with acquainted favorites, there are 5 new performers:
- March 30-31 – Queensrÿche (NEW)
- Could 11-12 – Maverick Metropolis Music (NEW)
- Could 23-24 – The Outlaws (NEW)
- Could 30-31 – The Cat Empire (NEW)
- June 1-2 – We The Kingdom (NEW)
New Gallery at CommuniCore Corridor
There’s a brand new exhibit on the brink of bloom at CommuniCore Corridor! Right here’s precisely what Walt Disney World stated about this: “Get a bee’s eye view at CommuniCore Corridor, with a brand new gallery that’s bigger than life! Seize a chunk at EPCOT Farmers Feast and be taught extra about how Disney’s Horticulture group brings topiaries, flower towers and extra to the EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant.”
Does this imply it’s going to be themed to Spike the Bee, we’re all going to shrink right down to his measurement, and every little thing goes to be huge. In that case, cool. However I additionally query whether or not there’s the area inside for enormous shows. Additionally, why would Disney spend the cash fabricating larger-than-life ‘making of’ stuff for Flower & Backyard once they have already got the common sized-stuff sitting round someplace?
Both means, it sounds cool. And that is definitely an enchancment over having CommuniCore Corridor perform as a glorified merchandise location together with an uninteresting meals sales space. Talking of which, EPCOT Farmers Feast is usually amongst our favourite cubicles of Flower & Backyard. I’m each excited to see it have the bigger kitchen and likewise a little bit nervous that placing it on this area will end in a extra crowd-pleasing or boring menu. It was near-perfect earlier than!
Finally, the lineup for the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant sounds stable. Whereas I’d like to get again to having the Fab 5 characters on the entrance entrance, at the least Moana is an enormous enchancment over Want. Considerably shocked that isn’t Inside Out 2, however topiaries take months to develop, so this was in all probability set in movement final spring when inner expectations had been that Moana 2 would outperform Inside Out 2. Not like both had been slouches, and Moana ties properly to Journey of Water simply across the nook.
My solely criticism is identical one I had final 12 months (12 months earlier than that, and so on.), which is that Figment needs to be the park’s unofficial mascot and ambassador for all festivals, not simply Pageant of the Arts. I’m undoubtedly biased, however extra Figment would imply a extra fashionable occasion with followers, which in flip would assist promote much more Figment merchandise (…and in flip enhance the percentages of a brand new attraction!). In any case, we’re actually trying ahead to the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant. The primary couple months of this pageant are amongst my favourite of the 12 months at EPCOT.
Planning a Walt Disney World journey? Find out about inns on our Walt Disney World Lodges Opinions web page. For the place to eat, learn our Walt Disney World Restaurant Opinions. To economize on tickets or decide which sort to purchase, learn our Suggestions for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets submit. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys submit takes a novel take a look at intelligent objects to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney World Journey Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, one of the best place to start out is our Walt Disney World Journey Planning Information for every little thing that you must know!
YOUR THOUGHTS
Are you excited to expertise the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant? Ideas on the resort hotel-inspired backyard or meals cubicles? Trying ahead to the brand new topiaries from Moana at EPCOT’s entrance or the return of Phineas and Ferb? Opinions on the rest coated right here? Any questions we will help you reply? Listening to suggestions about your experiences is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
Walt Disney World has introduced new additions for the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, together with the tip date and a sneak peek on the new topiaries, resort hotel-inspired meals cubicles, and way more. We’ve all of that, plus commentary in regards to the springtime occasion.
For starters, the EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant will run from March 5 to June 2, 2025 at Walt Disney World. The beginning shifts barely later, however the length of the pageant is kind of unchanged. Like final 12 months, the occasion is a full month shorter than it was from 2021 by means of 2023, however in keeping with historic precedent up till 2020.
Additionally like final 12 months, it’s doubtless that the EPCOT Meals & Wine Pageant will begin round Labor Day weekend, leaving a roughly 3-month window of Eating regimen EPCOT…or a brand new summer season pageant. We’re not holding our breath on that this 12 months, however Walt Disney World does want one thing at EPCOT to supply counter-programming to Epic Universe for locals. However that’s past the scope of this submit. For every little thing else that you must know in regards to the occasion, see our Final Information to the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant Information. This submit solely covers what’s new to the pageant for 2025.
In the course of the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, company can discover lush gardens, pattern candy and savory bites with refreshing sips (for a price, in fact!), and store new merchandise collections that includes Orange Fowl, Spike the Bee, and extra. Beginning at sundown, a vibrant spectacle of sunshine will likely be proven on Spaceship Earth, with the Beacons of Magic returning for an additional seasonal show.
Greater than 200,000 bedding vegetation are added to the gardens of EPCOT for the Flower & Backyard Pageant, together with an extra 60,000 bedding vegetation that create the enduring floral designs that make up the World Celebration East & West Lakes. Plus greater than 70 topiaries, that includes a pleasant array of Disney characters in addition to different figures and eccentric objects, will fill the park.
Disney Horticulture and Walt Disney Imagineering work collectively to design, construct and develop topiary shows. Beginning over a 12 months in the past, this course of started with artists growing sketches, Imagineers designing 3D fashions, expert welders molding frames, and horticulture specialists selecting plant supplies.
Right here’s a rundown of what’s new for the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant–beginning with these topiaries!
New Topiaries
A brand-new topiary show that includes characters from Moana will greet company on the park entrance. Make means for Moana, Maui Heihei, and Pua will likely be added to the gathering of elaborate plant sculptures which have turn into a pageant staple. Crafted with an artist’s cautious eye and the horticulturalists’ loving care, these new topiaries would be the good welcome to company strolling into the park for a full day of floral enjoyable.
Plus, Phineas and Ferb topiaries make their grand return! Different topiaries showing on the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant embrace characters from Inside Out, Figment, Miguel & Dante from Coco, and Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy.
For particulars about different nice gardens and topiaries on the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant, view the occasion information within the My Disney Expertise app—obtainable beginning February 27, 2025.
New Gardens
The brand new Playalong Bay Play Backyard pays homage to considered one of Walt Disney World’s famed resort swimming pools, Stormalong Bay at Yacht & Seashore Membership, mixing enjoyable for the entire household with journey on the excessive seas. This new nautically impressed playground will likely be situated between the Creativeness pavilion and the doorway to World Showcase.
Different gardens will have a good time vogue, neighborhood, tenting, perfume, and Inside Out 2.
New Meals Cubicles
Close to the Playalong Bay Play Backyard, you’ll discover two new Out of doors Kitchens with menus filled with seafood goodness: Yacht Grub and Seashore Grub. These are the primary meals cubicles impressed by Walt Disney World resort inns at Flower & Backyard. (And to one of the best of our data, any of the EPCOT festivals.)
For those who’re questioning the place returning favourite Out of doors Kitchens Florida Recent and EPCOT Farmers Feast will likely be (and we very a lot had been–these are two of one of the best cubicles!) – they are going to be in new areas at CommuniCore Plaza on the servery window and inside CommuniCore Corridor, respectively. Phew.
We love the thought of Yacht Grub and Seashore Grub. It’ll be fascinating to see if Walt Disney World really does menus impressed by these resorts, or if they simply needed puns that work with the backyard. Both means, this can be a nice concept going ahead. There are a number of resort inns with fan-favorite meals that may very well be featured at EPCOT festivals.
This was seemingly teased final 12 months with the Zebra Dome (by a distinct title) at Meals & Wine. However might you think about an Animal Kingdom Lodge sales space with Sanaa bread service, African Potjie from the Mara, Wild Boar or Venison from Jiko, and Zebra Domes?! With AKL not precisely simply accessible, this could be an enormous win for company with restricted time–or exposing new followers to the greatness of AKL’s culinary scene.
As for Yacht & Seashore Grub, I’ll preserve my expectations low: I simply need the Oreo Bon Bons for dessert, and possibly truffle fries as a aspect. That looks as if low-hanging, crowd-pleasing (not) fruit to associate with the seafood.
New Merchandise
Have fun the thirtieth Anniversary of the EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant from head to toe with an identical shirt and shorts set or a shiny new spirit jersey, each that includes everybody’s favourite citrusy buddy, Orange Fowl, and the thirtieth anniversary emblem.
For followers of Spike the Bee, you possibly can pack your backyard social gathering odds and ends inside a cute Lug Bag that’s sweeter than honey. You’ll really feel proper at house touring across the park with a Spike the Bee Shoulder Plush. There’s additionally an Alice In Wonderland assortment, and doubtless different stuff, who is aware of.
Merchandise isn’t my jam, so I don’t have sturdy opinions about most of these items. (Okay, besides one–how are these Lug Luggage so costly?! They’re glorified cellphone circumstances. I believed Spirit Jersey pricing was bonkers, however this takes the cake.)
Oh, and I additionally unironically love the orange Orange Fowl shirt and shorts. I do know it’s “the fashion” to put on matching stuff like this, however as somebody who’s decidedly unstylish, the shorts will suffice for me. Walt Disney World did a pair of Orange Fowl sweat shorts a number of years in the past as a part of an identical product line, and I nonetheless put on them round the home.
New Magic Pictures
PhotoPass has some artistic new methods to sprinkle additional pixie mud over visitor photographs through particular Magic Pictures that supply a bouquet of cool returning results, in addition to two new photographs – together with the brand new Figment Topiary Magic Shot above.
I admire that Walt Disney World continues so as to add PhotoPass Magic Pictures, particularly the sort that function bodily props or results, and never simply character overlays in submit (though these are enjoyable, too). We discover ourselves utilizing PhotoPass an increasing number of now with Megatron as a result of it’s simply simpler, so I’ve a newfound appreciation for the service.
Subsequent up, spend money on some new cameras and lenses. I assume Disney has a company alliance with Nikon, so use that to get new our bodies and glass. It’s been means too lengthy because the final improve and main enhancements have been made. (A number of the outdated gear can be in actually tough form, each aesthetically and optically.)
New Grooves
Additionally returning for the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant is the favored Backyard Rocks Live performance Sequence within the America Backyard Theatre. See Backyard Rocks Concert events on the EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant: Dates, Lineup & Eating Packages for every little thing that you must know and the total lineup. Together with acquainted favorites, there are 5 new performers:
- March 30-31 – Queensrÿche (NEW)
- Could 11-12 – Maverick Metropolis Music (NEW)
- Could 23-24 – The Outlaws (NEW)
- Could 30-31 – The Cat Empire (NEW)
- June 1-2 – We The Kingdom (NEW)
New Gallery at CommuniCore Corridor
There’s a brand new exhibit on the brink of bloom at CommuniCore Corridor! Right here’s precisely what Walt Disney World stated about this: “Get a bee’s eye view at CommuniCore Corridor, with a brand new gallery that’s bigger than life! Seize a chunk at EPCOT Farmers Feast and be taught extra about how Disney’s Horticulture group brings topiaries, flower towers and extra to the EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant.”
Does this imply it’s going to be themed to Spike the Bee, we’re all going to shrink right down to his measurement, and every little thing goes to be huge. In that case, cool. However I additionally query whether or not there’s the area inside for enormous shows. Additionally, why would Disney spend the cash fabricating larger-than-life ‘making of’ stuff for Flower & Backyard once they have already got the common sized-stuff sitting round someplace?
Both means, it sounds cool. And that is definitely an enchancment over having CommuniCore Corridor perform as a glorified merchandise location together with an uninteresting meals sales space. Talking of which, EPCOT Farmers Feast is usually amongst our favourite cubicles of Flower & Backyard. I’m each excited to see it have the bigger kitchen and likewise a little bit nervous that placing it on this area will end in a extra crowd-pleasing or boring menu. It was near-perfect earlier than!
Finally, the lineup for the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant sounds stable. Whereas I’d like to get again to having the Fab 5 characters on the entrance entrance, at the least Moana is an enormous enchancment over Want. Considerably shocked that isn’t Inside Out 2, however topiaries take months to develop, so this was in all probability set in movement final spring when inner expectations had been that Moana 2 would outperform Inside Out 2. Not like both had been slouches, and Moana ties properly to Journey of Water simply across the nook.
My solely criticism is identical one I had final 12 months (12 months earlier than that, and so on.), which is that Figment needs to be the park’s unofficial mascot and ambassador for all festivals, not simply Pageant of the Arts. I’m undoubtedly biased, however extra Figment would imply a extra fashionable occasion with followers, which in flip would assist promote much more Figment merchandise (…and in flip enhance the percentages of a brand new attraction!). In any case, we’re actually trying ahead to the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant. The primary couple months of this pageant are amongst my favourite of the 12 months at EPCOT.
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Are you excited to expertise the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant? Ideas on the resort hotel-inspired backyard or meals cubicles? Trying ahead to the brand new topiaries from Moana at EPCOT’s entrance or the return of Phineas and Ferb? Opinions on the rest coated right here? Any questions we will help you reply? Listening to suggestions about your experiences is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
Walt Disney World has introduced new additions for the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, together with the tip date and a sneak peek on the new topiaries, resort hotel-inspired meals cubicles, and way more. We’ve all of that, plus commentary in regards to the springtime occasion.
For starters, the EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant will run from March 5 to June 2, 2025 at Walt Disney World. The beginning shifts barely later, however the length of the pageant is kind of unchanged. Like final 12 months, the occasion is a full month shorter than it was from 2021 by means of 2023, however in keeping with historic precedent up till 2020.
Additionally like final 12 months, it’s doubtless that the EPCOT Meals & Wine Pageant will begin round Labor Day weekend, leaving a roughly 3-month window of Eating regimen EPCOT…or a brand new summer season pageant. We’re not holding our breath on that this 12 months, however Walt Disney World does want one thing at EPCOT to supply counter-programming to Epic Universe for locals. However that’s past the scope of this submit. For every little thing else that you must know in regards to the occasion, see our Final Information to the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant Information. This submit solely covers what’s new to the pageant for 2025.
In the course of the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, company can discover lush gardens, pattern candy and savory bites with refreshing sips (for a price, in fact!), and store new merchandise collections that includes Orange Fowl, Spike the Bee, and extra. Beginning at sundown, a vibrant spectacle of sunshine will likely be proven on Spaceship Earth, with the Beacons of Magic returning for an additional seasonal show.
Greater than 200,000 bedding vegetation are added to the gardens of EPCOT for the Flower & Backyard Pageant, together with an extra 60,000 bedding vegetation that create the enduring floral designs that make up the World Celebration East & West Lakes. Plus greater than 70 topiaries, that includes a pleasant array of Disney characters in addition to different figures and eccentric objects, will fill the park.
Disney Horticulture and Walt Disney Imagineering work collectively to design, construct and develop topiary shows. Beginning over a 12 months in the past, this course of started with artists growing sketches, Imagineers designing 3D fashions, expert welders molding frames, and horticulture specialists selecting plant supplies.
Right here’s a rundown of what’s new for the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant–beginning with these topiaries!
New Topiaries
A brand-new topiary show that includes characters from Moana will greet company on the park entrance. Make means for Moana, Maui Heihei, and Pua will likely be added to the gathering of elaborate plant sculptures which have turn into a pageant staple. Crafted with an artist’s cautious eye and the horticulturalists’ loving care, these new topiaries would be the good welcome to company strolling into the park for a full day of floral enjoyable.
Plus, Phineas and Ferb topiaries make their grand return! Different topiaries showing on the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant embrace characters from Inside Out, Figment, Miguel & Dante from Coco, and Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy.
For particulars about different nice gardens and topiaries on the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant, view the occasion information within the My Disney Expertise app—obtainable beginning February 27, 2025.
New Gardens
The brand new Playalong Bay Play Backyard pays homage to considered one of Walt Disney World’s famed resort swimming pools, Stormalong Bay at Yacht & Seashore Membership, mixing enjoyable for the entire household with journey on the excessive seas. This new nautically impressed playground will likely be situated between the Creativeness pavilion and the doorway to World Showcase.
Different gardens will have a good time vogue, neighborhood, tenting, perfume, and Inside Out 2.
New Meals Cubicles
Close to the Playalong Bay Play Backyard, you’ll discover two new Out of doors Kitchens with menus filled with seafood goodness: Yacht Grub and Seashore Grub. These are the primary meals cubicles impressed by Walt Disney World resort inns at Flower & Backyard. (And to one of the best of our data, any of the EPCOT festivals.)
For those who’re questioning the place returning favourite Out of doors Kitchens Florida Recent and EPCOT Farmers Feast will likely be (and we very a lot had been–these are two of one of the best cubicles!) – they are going to be in new areas at CommuniCore Plaza on the servery window and inside CommuniCore Corridor, respectively. Phew.
We love the thought of Yacht Grub and Seashore Grub. It’ll be fascinating to see if Walt Disney World really does menus impressed by these resorts, or if they simply needed puns that work with the backyard. Both means, this can be a nice concept going ahead. There are a number of resort inns with fan-favorite meals that may very well be featured at EPCOT festivals.
This was seemingly teased final 12 months with the Zebra Dome (by a distinct title) at Meals & Wine. However might you think about an Animal Kingdom Lodge sales space with Sanaa bread service, African Potjie from the Mara, Wild Boar or Venison from Jiko, and Zebra Domes?! With AKL not precisely simply accessible, this could be an enormous win for company with restricted time–or exposing new followers to the greatness of AKL’s culinary scene.
As for Yacht & Seashore Grub, I’ll preserve my expectations low: I simply need the Oreo Bon Bons for dessert, and possibly truffle fries as a aspect. That looks as if low-hanging, crowd-pleasing (not) fruit to associate with the seafood.
New Merchandise
Have fun the thirtieth Anniversary of the EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant from head to toe with an identical shirt and shorts set or a shiny new spirit jersey, each that includes everybody’s favourite citrusy buddy, Orange Fowl, and the thirtieth anniversary emblem.
For followers of Spike the Bee, you possibly can pack your backyard social gathering odds and ends inside a cute Lug Bag that’s sweeter than honey. You’ll really feel proper at house touring across the park with a Spike the Bee Shoulder Plush. There’s additionally an Alice In Wonderland assortment, and doubtless different stuff, who is aware of.
Merchandise isn’t my jam, so I don’t have sturdy opinions about most of these items. (Okay, besides one–how are these Lug Luggage so costly?! They’re glorified cellphone circumstances. I believed Spirit Jersey pricing was bonkers, however this takes the cake.)
Oh, and I additionally unironically love the orange Orange Fowl shirt and shorts. I do know it’s “the fashion” to put on matching stuff like this, however as somebody who’s decidedly unstylish, the shorts will suffice for me. Walt Disney World did a pair of Orange Fowl sweat shorts a number of years in the past as a part of an identical product line, and I nonetheless put on them round the home.
New Magic Pictures
PhotoPass has some artistic new methods to sprinkle additional pixie mud over visitor photographs through particular Magic Pictures that supply a bouquet of cool returning results, in addition to two new photographs – together with the brand new Figment Topiary Magic Shot above.
I admire that Walt Disney World continues so as to add PhotoPass Magic Pictures, particularly the sort that function bodily props or results, and never simply character overlays in submit (though these are enjoyable, too). We discover ourselves utilizing PhotoPass an increasing number of now with Megatron as a result of it’s simply simpler, so I’ve a newfound appreciation for the service.
Subsequent up, spend money on some new cameras and lenses. I assume Disney has a company alliance with Nikon, so use that to get new our bodies and glass. It’s been means too lengthy because the final improve and main enhancements have been made. (A number of the outdated gear can be in actually tough form, each aesthetically and optically.)
New Grooves
Additionally returning for the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant is the favored Backyard Rocks Live performance Sequence within the America Backyard Theatre. See Backyard Rocks Concert events on the EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant: Dates, Lineup & Eating Packages for every little thing that you must know and the total lineup. Together with acquainted favorites, there are 5 new performers:
- March 30-31 – Queensrÿche (NEW)
- Could 11-12 – Maverick Metropolis Music (NEW)
- Could 23-24 – The Outlaws (NEW)
- Could 30-31 – The Cat Empire (NEW)
- June 1-2 – We The Kingdom (NEW)
New Gallery at CommuniCore Corridor
There’s a brand new exhibit on the brink of bloom at CommuniCore Corridor! Right here’s precisely what Walt Disney World stated about this: “Get a bee’s eye view at CommuniCore Corridor, with a brand new gallery that’s bigger than life! Seize a chunk at EPCOT Farmers Feast and be taught extra about how Disney’s Horticulture group brings topiaries, flower towers and extra to the EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant.”
Does this imply it’s going to be themed to Spike the Bee, we’re all going to shrink right down to his measurement, and every little thing goes to be huge. In that case, cool. However I additionally query whether or not there’s the area inside for enormous shows. Additionally, why would Disney spend the cash fabricating larger-than-life ‘making of’ stuff for Flower & Backyard once they have already got the common sized-stuff sitting round someplace?
Both means, it sounds cool. And that is definitely an enchancment over having CommuniCore Corridor perform as a glorified merchandise location together with an uninteresting meals sales space. Talking of which, EPCOT Farmers Feast is usually amongst our favourite cubicles of Flower & Backyard. I’m each excited to see it have the bigger kitchen and likewise a little bit nervous that placing it on this area will end in a extra crowd-pleasing or boring menu. It was near-perfect earlier than!
Finally, the lineup for the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant sounds stable. Whereas I’d like to get again to having the Fab 5 characters on the entrance entrance, at the least Moana is an enormous enchancment over Want. Considerably shocked that isn’t Inside Out 2, however topiaries take months to develop, so this was in all probability set in movement final spring when inner expectations had been that Moana 2 would outperform Inside Out 2. Not like both had been slouches, and Moana ties properly to Journey of Water simply across the nook.
My solely criticism is identical one I had final 12 months (12 months earlier than that, and so on.), which is that Figment needs to be the park’s unofficial mascot and ambassador for all festivals, not simply Pageant of the Arts. I’m undoubtedly biased, however extra Figment would imply a extra fashionable occasion with followers, which in flip would assist promote much more Figment merchandise (…and in flip enhance the percentages of a brand new attraction!). In any case, we’re actually trying ahead to the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant. The primary couple months of this pageant are amongst my favourite of the 12 months at EPCOT.
Planning a Walt Disney World journey? Find out about inns on our Walt Disney World Lodges Opinions web page. For the place to eat, learn our Walt Disney World Restaurant Opinions. To economize on tickets or decide which sort to purchase, learn our Suggestions for Saving Cash on Walt Disney World Tickets submit. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys submit takes a novel take a look at intelligent objects to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney World Journey Guides will assist. For complete recommendation, one of the best place to start out is our Walt Disney World Journey Planning Information for every little thing that you must know!
YOUR THOUGHTS
Are you excited to expertise the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant? Ideas on the resort hotel-inspired backyard or meals cubicles? Trying ahead to the brand new topiaries from Moana at EPCOT’s entrance or the return of Phineas and Ferb? Opinions on the rest coated right here? Any questions we will help you reply? Listening to suggestions about your experiences is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
