2009 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

February 21, 2010 by Rick

Looking back at 2009’s Flower Festival helps us get more great ideas we can enjoy in our own gardens. Check out the Ornamental Sweet Potatoes used in this cleaver display as a pumpkin patch. 

 

 

This year we will have new Ornamental Sweet Potato varieties called “Bright Ideas”. They will be available with Lime (chartreuse), Black and Rusty Red foliage. Plant them in the spring or summer and then place your pumpkins in the foliage for a fall pumpkin patch display. They will be available in April at most Florida Home Depot garden centers.

 

 Bright Ideas

Ornamental Sweet Potatoes make great container and hanging basket plants. They are a SPILLER element in combination planters. Use the colors to echo colors in flowers or as contrast elements to make them pop.

 

2010 will surely be a great year at EPCOT for the Flowers. They just get better every year. Penny and Kim are talking a lot about the upcoming EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival on their blog over at The Dirt and in the Getaway section of the Tampa Tribune next Sunday.

 

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July 8. 2009 07:21

This looks absolutely fantastic! I'd love to see this show!

Kimberly

July 9. 2009 16:50

It IS fantastic, and this year there's so much for gardeners (but only Fridays through Sundays at Garden Town, which is in Future World.) There's a schedule of speakers, activities,etc. Go to disneyworld.disney.go.com/.../ -- yeah, you'll want to cut-and-paste that, and click on 2010 Flower and Garden Festival Guide.
   Rick, I love the pumpkin patch! Why didn't I think of that? Wish I'd bought a bunch of post-Halloween clearance fakes at Walgreen's last year!
   Do any of the HD varieties flower?
  

Penny Carnathan

July 9. 2009 16:57

I don't think they flower as a promotable feature but they probably do in the late fall and if we have a warm winter. We are so lucky to have EPCOT in our backyard and the Gaylord  Palms hotel. Have you been there?

Rick

July 12. 2009 00:18

I have not been to Gaylord Palms. Is it worth a visit? I was just talking with a friend today about the lack of really spectacular gardens here in Tampa. (I absolutely love USF Botanical and the Discovery Garden at the extension for learning, but an area as big as ours really should have some big WOW garden.)

Penny Carnathan

July 12. 2009 12:19

Everybody, the Gaylord Palms 4 acre atrium will blow away any plant enthusiast. They are near the Indoor Foliage Capital of the World, Apopka, so they have access to the latest and greatest plants. You can pay $12 to park and walk in from the convention center side or pull up front and valet park and have a meal in one of the fabulous eateries inside the atrium. No one has ever said anything but wow about this place. $212 per night to stay but it is really spectacular.

Rick

July 15. 2009 06:51

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Penny Carnathan