Guide to the 2025 EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival

Time to smell the flowers! The 2025 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival sows a riot of color and beauty at EPCOT, bringing it to life with the spring. This year’s 30th Anniversary event runs from March 5 to June 2, 2025, and most activities are included with your park ticket at no extra cost. There are gardens to see, gardens to smell, tasty food, and so much more! Tap any line in the list below to jump ahead, or read on to explore what this blooming Festival has to offer!

• EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival Entertainment
• EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival Activities & Family Fun
• EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival Outdoor Kitchens
• EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival Merchandise
• Flower & Garden Festival Tips and FAQ

Entertainment

Flower & Garden isn’t an entertainment-heavy Festival; most of the activities are all around you all the time. The exception is the Garden Rocks Concert Series. These evening concerts bring rockin’ performers to the stage at the America Gardens Theater. Headliners on the weekends alternate with local acts midweek, and new acts this year include

• March 30-31 – Queensrÿche
• May 11-12 – Maverick City Music
• May 23-24 – The Outlaws
• May 30-31 – The Cat Empire
• June 1-2 – We The Kingdom

Garden Rocks concerts are held nightly in the America Gardens Theater, with three shows daily at 5:30 pm, 6:45 pm, and 8:00 pm. The shows are free and there is standby seating for every performance. There’s no cost for the Garden Rocks concerts themselves. Booking a Dining Package to guarantee a seat does cost a little extra compared to the meal on its own.

You can see this year’s full lineup of performers, along with Dining Package restaurants and prices, here: 2025 Garden Rocks Concert Lineup and Dining Packages. Is a Garden Rocks Dining Package necessary? For less popular acts, no — they aren’t even offered for the local bands that play Tuesday through Thursday. But for bands with high name recognition, lines for standby seating can start forming as far as two hours in advance. If you don’t want to commit that much time to waiting, a bit of upcharge for the dining package might seem like a good deal. Another option is to listen from the area behind the theater; the view is poor but the sound is good from the outdoor seating at Regal Eagle Smokehouse.

Activities & Family Fun

At Flower & Garden time, there is so much blooming going on that it might be difficult to figure out what’s part of the Festival and what’s just decoration. It feels like everywhere you look, something is flowering.

But look a little closer and you’ll find some organization. Besides the background blooms, you’ll find over 20 themed gardens alongside topiaries of your favorite Disney characters.

Topiaries

Flower & Garden’s topiaries are hard to miss. This year’s all-new main entrance topiary features Maui, Moana, Heihei, and Pua. Others return reliably year after year. You’ll find topiaries of princesses, Marvel characters, Muppets, Mickey, Minnie, and more. Tap into the gallery below to see a few of our favorites.

Festival Gardens

Festival Gardens are a great opportunity to learn something about plants. Some are just beautiful to look at, like the pictures formed by the Festival Blooms garden. Others have more dedicated themes, like indoor plants, scented plants, or bonsai. The Spice Garden in the Morocco Pavilion highlights the role of spice and herb blends in international trade.

Each garden includes educational signage to help you learn what the garden is about. New for this year is a garden inspired by Inside Out 2 that focuses on the language of emotions through plants.

Twinings Tea Tour

One special garden is the English Tea Garden Presented by Twinings® in the U.K. Pavilion of the World Showcase. You can head for this garden to take a self-guided tour of plants used in some of Twinings’ blends. Or, stop in at the Tea Caddy shop in the Pavilion when the park opens to sign up for a complimentary guided tour. You’ll learn more about the history than you’ll get from the signs, and receive a small sampler of tea as a gift when your tour concludes.

Butterfly Garden

The Butterfly Garden is one of the Festival’s largest gardens. Head into the enclosed area to learn all about the plants that butterflies love. And about the butterflies themselves!

Garden Playgrounds

Sounds like a garden, but kinda not a garden. This year’s Festival features two play areas with “garden” in the name. The Playalong Bay Play Garden Presented by Smucker’s Uncrustables is a nautically-themed playground that gives props to one of Disney World’s best pools, Stormalong Bay. Find it between the Imagination Pavilion and the World Showcase.

On the other side of World Celebration, you’ll find Camp Get Out ‘N’ Play Garden presented by OFF!®. This camp-themed garden is between Creations Shop and the Odyssey.

Flower & Garden Festival Scavenger Huts

Flower & Garden has two opportunities to keep your eyes peeled around the park. Throughout the Festival, look for Spike the Bee in Spike the Bee’s Pollen-Nation Exploration Scavenger Hunt. You’ll find him in the Festival Gardens, where he’ll “bee” busy collecting nectar and pollinating the flowers.

The Egg-Stravaganza Hunt is a limited-time hunt that begins shortly before Easter. On the Egg-Stravaganza Hunt, you’ll look for eye-catching eggs, each painted to resemble a familiar bunny rabbit.

Both hunts cost $9.99 for the map, available at select merchandise locations. On completion (or even if you don’t complete it), you’ll receive a small prize.

CommuniCore Hall Gallery Experience

New in 2025, a Festival gallery brings the spotlight to Disney’s Horticulture team. Stop in for a bite at one of the Hall’s two kitchens (more on that in a minute), and learn how the team makes the topiaries and gardens of the Festival happen every year.

Living with the Land Flower & Garden Overlay

Living with the Land gets a few exhibits for Flower & Garden that are themed to the Festival’s dishes or classic Disney films. Every year it’s just a bit different!

Outdoor Kitchens

It’s spring, and everyone’s cookin’ outdoors! Spread throughout World Showcase and a bit beyond, “Outdoor Kitchen” food booths are a highlight of the Festival. Each kitchen sells snack-sized portions of sweet and savory dishes with a focus on fruits, vegetables, and herbs & spices. This year’s Festival features two brand-new Kitchens: Yacht Grub and Beach Grub.  Some of our favorites from last year are highlighted in the gallery below, and you can tap the link to see last year’s menu lineup: 2024 EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival Menus. We’ll update here as soon as new menus are out!

Once the Festival gets going we’ll have reviews, including a budget sampler, the best drinks, the Garden Graze, and more. Tap here to see all of our Outdoor Kitchen coverage, or if you prefer you can follow along on our Instagram feed.

With so many places to stop, you should know that there’s no one right way to snack through. One option is to visit a booth or two for lunch or dinner. Two or three savory dishes and a dessert are about the same amount of food as a Quick Service meal. Or, you can devote more time, stopping at Kitchens for a bite or a beverage as you make your way around the World Showcase.

For Festival budgeting, calculate about $6-7 per dish. If you like to try all the food from a booth, estimate about $20 per Outdoor Kitchen. For Flower & Garden drinks, beer runs about $6 and spirited cocktails between $12-15. If you’re on the Disney Dining Plan, almost you can use Snack Credits for almost every Festival dish. And they’re often a great value for these credits, if they are more than about $6.

Lines will be shorter at lunch than dinner. They tend to move quickly, so don’t let a long line scare you off from a tasty booth. If you’re looking for an app to help manage your eating, this is my favorite: Track Your Eats! An EPCOT Festival App for Your Phone.

The Garden Graze

Disney knows that sometimes it’s hard to choose, and a Festival food stroll is their answer. At the Flower & Garden Festival, the food stroll is the Garden Graze. Try any five dishes on the Graze and get your Festival Passport stamped when you pay. When you have 5 stamps, bring your passport to the Pineapple Promenade Outdoor Kitchen to claim your prize.

Merch!

Flower & Garden has a wide selection of merchandise. It’s blooming, it’s bright, and it features your favorite Festival friends. Look for Spike the Bee and Orange Bird who is the Festival’s unofficial mascot. But you’ll also plenty of less-overtly IP-related items that focus on nature and garden themes. These can be a good option if you want a souvenir from the Festival, but not one that screams Disney.

EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival Tips

⭐ Most Flower & Garden activities and entertainment are included with your EPCOT ticket. You’ll need valid park admission, and a reservation for EPCOT if your ticket requires one. You’ll spend money to try food from the Outdoor Kitchens, play any of the scavenger hunts, or get preferred Garden Rocks concert seating with the optional Garden Rocks Dining Packages. All other activities are free!

⭐ A Festival Guide is available in the My Disney Experience App. But we find it’s easier to pick up a Festival Passport as you enter the park. You’ll use it for the Garden Graze, and it’s just nicer than trying to find everything on your phone.

⭐ You can also use the Festival Passport to keep track of what you’ve eaten by stickering the pages. (Stickers are included in the booklet.) But if you prefer a mobile app for the outdoor Kitchens, the Food & Wine app works for all the EPCOT Festivals.

⭐ Disney sells a Flower & Garden wristlet mini gift card during the Flower & Garden Festival. It’s an easy way to pay at the Outdoor Kitchens. And it’s an easy way to keep to your budget as well, putting on a fixed amount when you buy one and quitting when it runs out. Of course, you can choose to reload if you want to keep going.

⭐ Flower and Garden crowds will be heavier on weekends, as locals have the opportunity to visit the parks. You might especially notice this during the afternoon, where the difference between weekday and weekend traffic is pretty striking. No matter what day you’re visiting, the levels on the TouringPlans Crowd Calendar are based on the wait time for rides. Be prepared for Festival crowds to “feel” higher than those numbers.

Have you been to EPCOT’s Flower & Garden Festival? What are your favorite things to do? Let us know in the comments!