Disney is getting topiaries ready for 2017 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

Topiary specialists are putting final touches on the nearly 100 topiaries which will dot the landscape around Epcot during the 2017 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival.

The 90-day festival runs from March 1 to May 29. Disney has released two photos of workers getting the topiaries ready.

A new Belle topiary, based on “Beauty and the Beast,” will grace the entrance of the France Pavilion Topiary artists have found new ways to use a wider variety of plant materials to represent character topiary facial features.

In the second photo, a worker at the Walt Disney World Horticulture Center blends color and adds detail that enhances the natural organic material used in the Mickey Mouse topiary.

Disney publicity photo by David Roark

Disney publicity photo by David Roark