2022 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival: Merchandise, Topiaries & New Gardens
Walt Disney World has announced details for the 2022 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival, which will run from March 2 to July 4, 2022. This post shares info about new gardens, a full list of topiaries, merchandise collections, how it’ll tie into the 50th Anniversary, and more.
The 2022 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival will be tied for the longest ever with last year, when it also ran for 125 days. Disney has extended both Flower & Garden and Food & Wine by around a month each, effectively bridging the gap between the two.
The reason for this is pretty obvious, as “Diet Epcot” season has become the least busy time of the year in the park. In other words, the goal is to buoy attendance when Epcot is slower than the other parks at Walt Disney World. Despite some complaints from fans about perpetual festivals, that’s exactly what makes Epcot popular with locals.
As for concrete details about the 2022 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival, we now have a list of topiaries. This is highlighted by the new main entrance topiary display featuring Goofy and a 50th birthday cake for the World’s Most Magical Celebration. I’m really looking forward to that one–can’t wait to photograph it at night with the Beacons of Magic on Spaceship Earth as a backdrop!
Here’s a full list of topiaries coming to the 2022 Epcot International Flower Garden Festival and where you can find them:
- Goofy Topiary and Walt Disney World 50th Anniversary Celebration Cake — Main Entrance
- Sorcerer Mickey Mouse, Brooms, Ostriches, Hippo and Gator — Entrance to World Showcase
- Woody, Bo Peep and Her Sheep — near The Land Pavilion
- Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie — Bridge to World Showcase
- Pluto and Chip ‘n’ Dale — The American Adventure Pavilion
- Buzz Lightyear — near Mission: SPACE
- Figment — near Imagination!
- The Three Caballeros (Jose, Donald and Panchito) — Mexico Pavilion
- Anna and Elsa — Norway Pavilion
- Troll — Norway Pavilion
- Dragon — Japan Pavilion near Torii Gate
- Pandas — China Pavilion
- Simba and Friends (Rafiki, Simba, Mufasa and Sarabi) — Between Imagination! and The Land Pavilion
- Pumbaa and Timon — Between Imagination! and The Land Pavilion
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — Germany Pavilion
- Lady and the Tramp — Italy Pavilion
- Beauty and the Beast — France Pavilion
- Lumiere and Cogsworth — France Pavilion
- Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy — Germany Pavilion
- Peter Pan, Captain Hook and Tick Tock Croc — Between the United Kingdom and Canada Pavilions
- Winnie the Pooh and Friends (Rabbit, Eeyore, Piglet and Tigger) — United Kingdom Pavilion
- Tinker Bell’s Fairy House Garden — United Kingdom Pavilion
- Bambi and Friends — near Imagination!
Walt Disney World has also announced the gardens that’ll be featured at the 2022 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival, with the list largely being as normal. One noteworthy highlight will be a new fragrant garden on the bridge to World Showcase. Surrounded by vibrant butterfly topiaries, guests will be invited to follow their noses to six scent stations–floral, fruity, citrus, spice, woods and fresh–to form lasting memories with the help of unforgettable aromas.
This fragrant garden is presented by Scentsy, which is a MLM company. For those unfamiliar with multi-level marketing, these companies are essentially legal pyramid schemes. As for why a family-friendly company is partnering with MLMs, your guess is as good as mine. At least when it comes to sports betting or gambling, there’s a degree of transparency about the nature of the business. No one is being duped by long-lost Facebook “friends” from high school into getting mixed up with DraftKings.
Another garden highlight is the Health Full Trail, which offers a fun way for families to play and learn how to stay healthy. There’s also Outdoor Escapes, which lets guests enjoy a moment of relaxation and learn how easy it is to create an outdoor escape of their own.
Bambi’s Butterfly House enchants guests with a kaleidoscope of butterflies showing off their extraordinary beauty and colors. Other personal favorites include the Shakespeare Garden in the United Kingdom, Bonsai & Kokedama Collections in Japan, and Prehistoric Garden near Mission: SPACE. (I would love to see the old Universe of Energy dinosaurs make a comeback here!)
Finally, Walt Disney World has revealed the merchandise collections for the 2022 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival. First up is Figment’s Garden, which promises to “grow your imagination” with Figment-themed apparel, drinkware and more as you dream green this festival season.
Another highlight is Orange Bird, a returning favorite. Expect adorable Orange Bird keepsakes in this vibrant collection that includes apparel, accessories and other novelties. That Spirit Jersey is certainly…vibrant! I’d probably be more excited about these two collections, but in the past couple of years, all of this merchandise has been way too busy for my tastes. With that said, I know many of Walt Disney World fans love this stuff, and I’m certainly not going to knock the merchandising teams for taking more risks and incorporating Figment and Orange Bird into more designs.
Here’s a list of the other collections:
- Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse – Browse a collection that celebrates Mickey and Minnie Mouse–featuring apparel, drinkware, trading pins and a MagicBand.
- Mickey Mouse Home Garden – Celebrate this year’s festival with home garden-inspired merchandise from this collection featuring vibrant apparel, drinkware, garden tools and so much more.
- Spike the Bee – Find sweet reminders of Spike the Bee on apparel, accessories, drinkware, a garden stake and other collectible novelties.
Speaking of Spike the Bee, his pollination trail returns, where he will “bee” busy collecting nectar and pollinating gardens at Epcot. To get started, purchase your map and stickers at select merchandise locations for $9.99 plus tax.
Once you have completed your scavenger hunt, return your completed map to Disney Traders or World Traveler for a special surprise.
Ultimately, the tentative lineup for the 2022 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival sounds solid and it’s good to see the event returning in near-normal form. As silly as it might sound, I’m also very excited for the return of Epcot Sunshine Griddle, which is my favorite booth at any festival since Flavors from Fire debuted.
In theory, it would be nice to have a more fully-fledged Festival Center, but I have to admit that I really haven’t missed it during Festival of the Arts so far. It’s nice to be outdoors, but then again, I also love the “winter” weather that’s been hitting Orlando of late. With Flower & Garden Festival, the heart of the event revolves around the horticulture, so it makes sense to have more outdoor activities. (Get back to me on that when the June/July heat arrives, though.)
There’s also the likelihood that Epcot will have fewer construction walls and more attractions and restaurants by the midway point in the 2022 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival–and that there will be some fun surprises for the event. (Here’s hoping for a nature-themed Beacons of Magic and maybe Groot and Rocket topiaries?!)
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Are you excited to experience the 2022 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival, or will you be sitting this one out? Looking forward to the new 50th Anniversary entrance topiary, gardens, or Orange Bird & Figment merchandise? Excited for the return of the Garden Rocks concert series? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing feedback about your experiences is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
Tom, no reason at all to include snarky remarks about Scentsy and MLM. Disappointing….play nice.
Perhaps a Figment popcorn bucket!?!?!?
So sad the cultural representatives aren’t back at Epcot, I’m not sure the festival will feel the same without them. Any insight into when they might return?
Not sure why you had to say network marketing is a legal pyramid scheme. You’re incredibly wrong by the way! Don’t knock it until you try it! Very disappointed you said such a thing! I make an extra income every month and my company shares the profits with everyone! I’m guessing you’ll get a lot of complaints about your comment. I understand you’re entitled to your own opinion but millions of people have a side gig in a network marketing company. Disappointed.
Very disappointed that Disney is partnering with an MLM like Scentsy when these companies are notorious for fleecing their own “consultants.” Based on their own income disclosure on their site, the average annual commission in 2020 was just $2090 a year, which averages out to only $174 per month (https://imagelive.scentsy.com/cmsimages/files/Join/Income-Disclosure/2021/021521/R1-USEN-2020-IncomeDisclosureStatement-Final.pdf) which doesn’t even account for the fact that they have to buy their own stock and are left holding the bag when it doesn’t sell.
But I guess as long as Disney’s getting those sweet licensing fees, they don’t care how shady the company is!
Can’t wait! Last time we got to see this festival was 6 years ago! Used to go every year as part of our Spring Training pilgrimage. The park is so alive at that time, esp w/small kids along. My last time at WDW was Nov 2018, so I’m excited to ride Spaceship Earth as well! I was actually emotional when we left it that year, thinking it was going to be closed for the following 2 years. I’m bursting at the seams to ride it again! Thanks for getting me reacclimated to Disney, Tom! So much has changed.
Off topic.. In extended evening hours I see Hollywood Studios for Wednesday, April 13th. Do you think it is a mistake or Disney truly added HS to the parks with extended evening hours?
That is hilarious!
Love it.
I always like F&G merchandise especially with Figment, Orange Bird, and Spike the Bee.
Taking into account your wisdom, Tom, we rescheduled our February trip to beginning of may, and I couldn’t be more happier. So looking forward to the flower and garden topiaries and sunshine griddle food as well. Not to mention the stage show and parades being back at magic kingdom. Thank you for all the hard work you do for us!
@Candle_lady get the SPAM Hash or it’s a wasted trip…
I’ll be there during festival time and am looking forward to this. We were there once before but oblivious to the fact that the booths were special.
I hope to take better advantage this time!
I generally don’t get into any merch so it can be as loud as it wants. I’ll still ignore it.
Mostly I’m just here to let you know that if you need any wax melts, I’d be happy to help. Or maybe you want to work your own hours and be your own boss… selling candles?
This would be the highlight of my begrudged trip to Disney this spring!
What, no topiary of Bob Chapek with a wheelbarrow full of gold bars near one of smiling Bob Iger with a dump truck full of platinum bars waving to you?
Couldn’t agree with you more.