Fun Disney Facts: A look a 2016 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival at Disney World
The 23rd Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival is now taking place at Disney World.
Among this year’s fun festival facts:
30 million: Blooms blanket the park throughout the festival.
500,000: Plant, trees and shrubs plants, trees and shrubs are planted for the festival.
24,000: Cast member hours to prepare for the annual festival.
1,000: Native butterflies
700: Container gardens of flowers, herbs, plants and vegetables in clay pots, barrels and urns enhance the landscape throughout Epcot.
400: Walt Disney World horticulturists are needed to install the festival landscape, topiaries and many exhibits.
200: Floating mini-gardens, each three feet in diameter, of multi-hued New Guinea impatiens provide splashes of color on two ponds that border the walkway between Future World and World Showcase.
100: Epcot horticulturists maintain topiaries and other festival displays.
48: Varieties of bedding plants are used.
47: Types of palms are at the festival.
40: 8-to-9-foot tall “flower towers” in an orange-and-green sunburst theme make colorful statements across the festival landscape.
30: Food items featured.
25: Different plants, grasses and mosses of various colors, including pink and red begonias, dusty miller, palm fiber, palm seeds, ficus and lichen, are used to create and define facial and other features of festival character topiaries.
13: Outdoor kitchens are featured at the park.
