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EPCOT is about to do one of its classic seasonal costume changes, and this time, it means the flowers, food booths, topiaries, and springtime snacks are all packing their tiny festival suitcases.
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Flower and Garden Topiaries
The 2026 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival ends on June 1st, which means you have just a few days left to get your final festival lap in before EPCOT starts shifting toward its next big food-focused era. And look, EPCOT is always going to be EPCOT. Spaceship Earth will still be standing there like a giant golf ball with secrets. Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind will still be launching people into emotional disco orbit. But the Flower & Garden Festival? That’s seasonal. Once it’s gone, a LOT changes fast.
So if you’ve been casually telling yourself, “I’ll get around to it,” this is your polite but urgent shove toward the International Gateway.
The EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival is one of the prettiest events Disney World does all year, and yes, we mean that in the most dramatic way possible. This is the festival that gives us character topiaries, colorful gardens, spring-exclusive merchandise, Garden Rocks concerts, and a whole bunch of Outdoor Kitchens that make it socially acceptable to build lunch out of four snacks and a drink shaped emotionally like sunshine.
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EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival
But on June 1st, the festival officially ends. That means the Outdoor Kitchens will close, the specialty festival menus will disappear, Garden Rocks will wrap up, and those limited-time snacks you’ve been eyeing may go back into the Disney vault where lost snacks go to haunt us. Not every single flower in EPCOT will vanish at midnight, obviously. This is not Cinderella’s pumpkin situation. But the festival experience as we know it? That’s ending.
First, stop trying to eat everything. That way lies regret, a drained gift card, and the very specific feeling of being bullied by a tiny compostable fork. Instead, prioritize. Pick the dishes you actually care about. Choose the booths that are worth your time. Make a loose plan before you walk into EPCOT and suddenly decide that you, personally, need to investigate every sauce on property.
This is where our Magical Guides Festival Guides come in handy. The Flower & Garden Festival can be gorgeous and chaotic at the same time, which is basically EPCOT’s love language. Our Magical Guides Guide to the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival helps you figure out what’s worth your money, what you can skip, where the booths are, what the menus look like, where the topiaries are hiding, and how to avoid zig-zagging across the park like a confused bumblebee. Because yes, you can wander aimlessly and hope for the best. But we prefer snacks with a strategy.
We’ve eaten our way through the 2026 Flower & Garden Festival, which sounds glamorous until you remember that “eating everything” at EPCOT is both a dream and a full-body athletic event. So, if you’re making one last trip before the festival ends, these are some of the dishes and drinks we think deserve a spot on your shortlist.
This was one of our favorite new dishes of the festival, and it actually works as a real lunch. Not a “three bites and a prayer” lunch. A real one. The Tuna Poke Bowl comes with edamame, avocado, mango, pickled red onions, seaweed salad, furikake, and umami sauce over sticky rice. It’s fresh, bright, filling, and one of those festival dishes that feels like it understood the assignment without needing to announce it loudly.
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Tuna poke bowl
If you’re trying to avoid the “I ate dessert for lunch and now I see through time” problem, this is a smart pick.
You already know we’re not going to ignore a DOLE Whip situation. We are professionals. The Peach DOLE Whip was light, refreshing, and not too sweet, which is exactly what you want when Florida has decided to turn the humidity dial to “soup.” The peach flavor tasted natural, and frankly, we would not object if Disney decided to keep this one around all year.
Peach Dole Whip at Swirled Showcase
We are not above begging. We have done worse for snacks.
These were a festival win for anyone who likes their dessert with a little citrusy drama. The Cinnamon Beignets are tossed with lemon sugar and lemon glaze, then served with a honey mead-blueberry compote. They’re doughy, shareable, and the lemon gives them enough brightness to keep the whole thing from feeling too heavy.
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Cinnamon Beignets
This is the kind of dessert you buy “for the table,” then immediately start monitoring everyone’s fork activity like a theme park snack accountant.
Trowel & Trellis had a very good year, and the Garden Vegetable Flatbread is part of the reason why. This flatbread comes with Boursin Garlic & Fine Herbs cheese, roasted vegetables, and arugula salad. It’s creamy, fresh, and a better value than we expected from a festival booth, which is always a delightful little plot twist.
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Garden Vegetable Flatbread
It’s also a great option if you want something savory but not nap-inducing. EPCOT snacks should support your day, not send you face-first into a bench near The Seas.
Sometimes the answer is chips and dip. We don’t make the rules. We simply respect the salty architecture. The Trio of Dips and Chips brings housemade potato chips with whipped feta dip and candied lemon, caramelized onion dip with caviar, and pimento cheese with pickles. Each dip brings something different, and the chips have the crunch we want from a festival snack.
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Trio of Dips and Chips
This is a strong sharing option, assuming you are traveling with people who can behave around dip. Not everyone can. Know your group.
This one has been on our radar for a while, and the liquid nitrogen upgrade made it even more fun. The Honey-Mascarpone Cheesecake comes topped with fresh honey, granulated honey, and honey mead-blueberry compote. It’s pretty, it’s creamy, it’s festival-y in the best way, and it gives you the kind of texture moment that makes standing in a booth line feel justified.
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Liquid Nitrogen Honey-Mascarpone Cheesecake
A snack with a little science? Fine. EPCOT, you win this round.
This caramelized onion tart is one of those dishes that sounds simple until you taste it and realize someone in the France booth was not here to play. It’s made with caramelized onions on a flaky pastry crust and topped with bacon. The texture works, the flavors are balanced, and the bacon brings just enough salt and richness to make it feel complete.
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This is not the flashiest dish at the festival, but it is one of the ones we’d tell you not to overlook.
If you want something that tastes fresh, smoky, and summery, the Grilled Street Corn on the Cob is a strong bet. This plant-based dish is covered in garlic spread and plant-based “cheese,” then grilled right there at the booth. The char adds a lot, the seasoning does its job, and it’s one of those returning items that keeps proving why it made the comeback roster.
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Grilled Street Corn on the Cob
Also, yes, it is messy. Festival corn does not care about your plans.
Some festival drinks become popular because they’re pretty. Some become popular because they taste good. Frozen Desert Violet Lemonade pulled off both, which feels greedy but effective. It’s tart, refreshing, and a perfect hot-day EPCOT drink. Kids love it. Adults love it. Phones love photographing it. Everyone wins.
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Thirsty?
If you still haven’t had this one, now is the time. The clock is ticking, and the lemonade is purple.
The Orange-Lemon Smoothie at The Citrus Blossom is another fun pick, especially because it comes in the Orange Bird sipper. It has that nostalgic orange sherbet flavor, and the souvenir factor makes it a big hit for younger festival fans.
Orange-Lemon Smoothie Served in a Souvenir Orange Bird Sipper
Also, Orange Bird remains one of Disney’s most charming little citrus gremlins, and we say that with respect.
This year, our Best Booth of the Fest went to Trowel & Trellis. That booth gave us the Garden Vegetable Flatbread, those sticky ribs we think about way too often, and a dessert that looked and tasted like it belonged at Flower & Garden. The whole booth felt fresh, thoughtful, and worth the stop.
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The spread
If you only have time for a few booths before the festival ends, Trowel & Trellis should be high on your list.
Go earlier in the day if you can. Many festival booths tend to get busier as the afternoon goes on, especially when locals and park hoppers start joining the snack parade.
https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Magical Guides-Atmo-Jardin-De-Fiestas-Booths-2026-EPCOT-Flower-and-Garden-Festival-Photo-Mar-04-2026-4-700x525.jpg
Jardin de Fiestas Outdoor Kitchen 2026
Use a Disney gift card if you’re trying to stick to a budget. It’s dangerously easy to nickel-and-dime yourself into a full theme park dinner bill when every snack feels “small.” A loaded gift card helps keep the math from sneaking up behind you wearing Mickey ears.
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Flower and Garden Gift Card!
Check booth locations before you start eating. The fastest way to lose time is to grab one snack in World Showcase, realize your next must-try is near World Discovery, then begin your accidental half-marathon in the sun.
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EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival
And please, hydrate. Festival sipping is fun. Becoming one with the pavement near Canada is not.
The Magical Guides Guide to the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival is built for exactly this kind of situation. You’re short on time, there are too many booths, and you need someone to tell you what’s actually worth your snack money.
Inside the guide, you’ll find full booth menus, photos, Best of the Fest picks, booth crawls, event schedules, topiary locations, festival merchandise details, hidden extras, and budget tips to help you make the most of your day.
Basically, it’s the difference between “I had a great festival day” and “I blacked out near a topiary and bought three desserts I don’t remember.”
Once Flower & Garden wraps up, EPCOT won’t be festival-free forever. The 2026 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival kicks off on August 27th and runs through November 21st. That means another giant wave of booths, menus, snacks, drinks, entertainment, and limited-time offerings is headed our way soon. And yes, we’ll be all over it.
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2025 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival
Our Magical Guides Guide to the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival will be available to help you plan for EPCOT’s next festival, and if you’ve ever tried to tackle Food & Wine without a plan, you already know that the festival can turn into a delicious little maze with receipts.
Food & Wine is one of EPCOT’s biggest events of the year, and when those menus drop, you’ll want a guide that helps you figure out what’s new, what’s returning, what’s worth the hype, and what you can safely skip without snack remorse.
The EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival is almost over, and once it’s gone, many of these foods, drinks, topiaries, concerts, and festival extras will disappear with it. So if you want one more Peach DOLE Whip, one more Violet Lemonade, one more lap around the Outdoor Kitchens, or one more excuse to call a flatbread “research,” now is the time.
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Limoncello-Basil Sparkling Cocktail
We’ll keep bringing you all the updates, reviews, menus, tips, and festival intel you need for EPCOT’s seasonal chaos, from the final days of Flower & Garden to the first bites of Food & Wine. Until then, go eat the snack. Take the picture. Buy the Orange Bird thing if your heart demands it.
The flowers are leaving soon. The fork is in your court.
Inside the guide:
Have you done everything you’ve wanted to do at the Flower & Garden Festival? What’s still on your list to experience? Let us know in the comments below!
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Flower and Garden Topiaries
The 2026 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival ends on June 1st, which means you have just a few days left to get your final festival lap in before EPCOT starts shifting toward its next big food-focused era. And look, EPCOT is always going to be EPCOT. Spaceship Earth will still be standing there like a giant golf ball with secrets. Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind will still be launching people into emotional disco orbit. But the Flower & Garden Festival? That’s seasonal. Once it’s gone, a LOT changes fast.
So if you’ve been casually telling yourself, “I’ll get around to it,” this is your polite but urgent shove toward the International Gateway.
The Festival Ends June 1st
The EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival is one of the prettiest events Disney World does all year, and yes, we mean that in the most dramatic way possible. This is the festival that gives us character topiaries, colorful gardens, spring-exclusive merchandise, Garden Rocks concerts, and a whole bunch of Outdoor Kitchens that make it socially acceptable to build lunch out of four snacks and a drink shaped emotionally like sunshine.
https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Magical Guides-Booths-Atmos-Menus-Spreads-Beach-Grub-2026-EPCOT-Flower-and-Garden-Festival-Photo-Mar-04-2026-6-700x525.jpg
EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival
But on June 1st, the festival officially ends. That means the Outdoor Kitchens will close, the specialty festival menus will disappear, Garden Rocks will wrap up, and those limited-time snacks you’ve been eyeing may go back into the Disney vault where lost snacks go to haunt us. Not every single flower in EPCOT will vanish at midnight, obviously. This is not Cinderella’s pumpkin situation. But the festival experience as we know it? That’s ending.
What You Need to Do Before It’s Gone
First, stop trying to eat everything. That way lies regret, a drained gift card, and the very specific feeling of being bullied by a tiny compostable fork. Instead, prioritize. Pick the dishes you actually care about. Choose the booths that are worth your time. Make a loose plan before you walk into EPCOT and suddenly decide that you, personally, need to investigate every sauce on property.
This is where our Magical Guides Festival Guides come in handy. The Flower & Garden Festival can be gorgeous and chaotic at the same time, which is basically EPCOT’s love language. Our Magical Guides Guide to the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival helps you figure out what’s worth your money, what you can skip, where the booths are, what the menus look like, where the topiaries are hiding, and how to avoid zig-zagging across the park like a confused bumblebee. Because yes, you can wander aimlessly and hope for the best. But we prefer snacks with a strategy.
Our Best of the Fest Picks
We’ve eaten our way through the 2026 Flower & Garden Festival, which sounds glamorous until you remember that “eating everything” at EPCOT is both a dream and a full-body athletic event. So, if you’re making one last trip before the festival ends, these are some of the dishes and drinks we think deserve a spot on your shortlist.
Tuna Poke Bowl at Nectar
This was one of our favorite new dishes of the festival, and it actually works as a real lunch. Not a “three bites and a prayer” lunch. A real one. The Tuna Poke Bowl comes with edamame, avocado, mango, pickled red onions, seaweed salad, furikake, and umami sauce over sticky rice. It’s fresh, bright, filling, and one of those festival dishes that feels like it understood the assignment without needing to announce it loudly.
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Tuna poke bowl
If you’re trying to avoid the “I ate dessert for lunch and now I see through time” problem, this is a smart pick.
DOLE Whip Peach at Swirled Showcase
You already know we’re not going to ignore a DOLE Whip situation. We are professionals. The Peach DOLE Whip was light, refreshing, and not too sweet, which is exactly what you want when Florida has decided to turn the humidity dial to “soup.” The peach flavor tasted natural, and frankly, we would not object if Disney decided to keep this one around all year.
Peach Dole Whip at Swirled Showcase
We are not above begging. We have done worse for snacks.
Cinnamon Beignets at The Citrus Blossom
These were a festival win for anyone who likes their dessert with a little citrusy drama. The Cinnamon Beignets are tossed with lemon sugar and lemon glaze, then served with a honey mead-blueberry compote. They’re doughy, shareable, and the lemon gives them enough brightness to keep the whole thing from feeling too heavy.
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Cinnamon Beignets
This is the kind of dessert you buy “for the table,” then immediately start monitoring everyone’s fork activity like a theme park snack accountant.
Garden Vegetable Flatbread at Trowel & Trellis
Trowel & Trellis had a very good year, and the Garden Vegetable Flatbread is part of the reason why. This flatbread comes with Boursin Garlic & Fine Herbs cheese, roasted vegetables, and arugula salad. It’s creamy, fresh, and a better value than we expected from a festival booth, which is always a delightful little plot twist.
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Garden Vegetable Flatbread
It’s also a great option if you want something savory but not nap-inducing. EPCOT snacks should support your day, not send you face-first into a bench near The Seas.
Trio of Dips and Chips at Yacht Grub
Sometimes the answer is chips and dip. We don’t make the rules. We simply respect the salty architecture. The Trio of Dips and Chips brings housemade potato chips with whipped feta dip and candied lemon, caramelized onion dip with caviar, and pimento cheese with pickles. Each dip brings something different, and the chips have the crunch we want from a festival snack.
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Trio of Dips and Chips
This is a strong sharing option, assuming you are traveling with people who can behave around dip. Not everyone can. Know your group.
Liquid Nitrogen Honey-Mascarpone Cheesecake at Swirled Showcase
This one has been on our radar for a while, and the liquid nitrogen upgrade made it even more fun. The Honey-Mascarpone Cheesecake comes topped with fresh honey, granulated honey, and honey mead-blueberry compote. It’s pretty, it’s creamy, it’s festival-y in the best way, and it gives you the kind of texture moment that makes standing in a booth line feel justified.
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Liquid Nitrogen Honey-Mascarpone Cheesecake
A snack with a little science? Fine. EPCOT, you win this round.
Tarte Aux Oignons Caramélisés at Fleur de Lys
This caramelized onion tart is one of those dishes that sounds simple until you taste it and realize someone in the France booth was not here to play. It’s made with caramelized onions on a flaky pastry crust and topped with bacon. The texture works, the flavors are balanced, and the bacon brings just enough salt and richness to make it feel complete.
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This is not the flashiest dish at the festival, but it is one of the ones we’d tell you not to overlook.
Grilled Street Corn on the Cob at Beach Grub
If you want something that tastes fresh, smoky, and summery, the Grilled Street Corn on the Cob is a strong bet. This plant-based dish is covered in garlic spread and plant-based “cheese,” then grilled right there at the booth. The char adds a lot, the seasoning does its job, and it’s one of those returning items that keeps proving why it made the comeback roster.
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Grilled Street Corn on the Cob
Also, yes, it is messy. Festival corn does not care about your plans.
Frozen Desert Violet Lemonade at Pineapple Promenade
Some festival drinks become popular because they’re pretty. Some become popular because they taste good. Frozen Desert Violet Lemonade pulled off both, which feels greedy but effective. It’s tart, refreshing, and a perfect hot-day EPCOT drink. Kids love it. Adults love it. Phones love photographing it. Everyone wins.
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Thirsty?
If you still haven’t had this one, now is the time. The clock is ticking, and the lemonade is purple.
Don’t Forget the Kids’ Pick
The Orange-Lemon Smoothie at The Citrus Blossom is another fun pick, especially because it comes in the Orange Bird sipper. It has that nostalgic orange sherbet flavor, and the souvenir factor makes it a big hit for younger festival fans.
Orange-Lemon Smoothie Served in a Souvenir Orange Bird Sipper
Also, Orange Bird remains one of Disney’s most charming little citrus gremlins, and we say that with respect.
Our Best Booth of the Fest
This year, our Best Booth of the Fest went to Trowel & Trellis. That booth gave us the Garden Vegetable Flatbread, those sticky ribs we think about way too often, and a dessert that looked and tasted like it belonged at Flower & Garden. The whole booth felt fresh, thoughtful, and worth the stop.
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The spread
If you only have time for a few booths before the festival ends, Trowel & Trellis should be high on your list.
Last-Minute Festival Tips
Go earlier in the day if you can. Many festival booths tend to get busier as the afternoon goes on, especially when locals and park hoppers start joining the snack parade.
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Jardin de Fiestas Outdoor Kitchen 2026
Use a Disney gift card if you’re trying to stick to a budget. It’s dangerously easy to nickel-and-dime yourself into a full theme park dinner bill when every snack feels “small.” A loaded gift card helps keep the math from sneaking up behind you wearing Mickey ears.
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Flower and Garden Gift Card!
Check booth locations before you start eating. The fastest way to lose time is to grab one snack in World Showcase, realize your next must-try is near World Discovery, then begin your accidental half-marathon in the sun.
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EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival
And please, hydrate. Festival sipping is fun. Becoming one with the pavement near Canada is not.
Don’t Waste Your Final Festival Day
The Magical Guides Guide to the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival is built for exactly this kind of situation. You’re short on time, there are too many booths, and you need someone to tell you what’s actually worth your snack money.
Inside the guide, you’ll find full booth menus, photos, Best of the Fest picks, booth crawls, event schedules, topiary locations, festival merchandise details, hidden extras, and budget tips to help you make the most of your day.
Basically, it’s the difference between “I had a great festival day” and “I blacked out near a topiary and bought three desserts I don’t remember.”
And Next Up: Food & Wine
Once Flower & Garden wraps up, EPCOT won’t be festival-free forever. The 2026 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival kicks off on August 27th and runs through November 21st. That means another giant wave of booths, menus, snacks, drinks, entertainment, and limited-time offerings is headed our way soon. And yes, we’ll be all over it.
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2025 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival
Our Magical Guides Guide to the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival will be available to help you plan for EPCOT’s next festival, and if you’ve ever tried to tackle Food & Wine without a plan, you already know that the festival can turn into a delicious little maze with receipts.
Food & Wine is one of EPCOT’s biggest events of the year, and when those menus drop, you’ll want a guide that helps you figure out what’s new, what’s returning, what’s worth the hype, and what you can safely skip without snack remorse.
The Final Bloom
The EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival is almost over, and once it’s gone, many of these foods, drinks, topiaries, concerts, and festival extras will disappear with it. So if you want one more Peach DOLE Whip, one more Violet Lemonade, one more lap around the Outdoor Kitchens, or one more excuse to call a flatbread “research,” now is the time.
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Limoncello-Basil Sparkling Cocktail
We’ll keep bringing you all the updates, reviews, menus, tips, and festival intel you need for EPCOT’s seasonal chaos, from the final days of Flower & Garden to the first bites of Food & Wine. Until then, go eat the snack. Take the picture. Buy the Orange Bird thing if your heart demands it.
The flowers are leaving soon. The fork is in your court.
More Details About the 2026 Flower & Garden Festival5
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- 7 Important Rules To Avoid Wasting Money at EPCOT’s Flower & Garden Festival
- How To Get a Secret (And FREE) DOLE Whip in EPCOT!
DON’T WASTE A BITE
AT FLOWER & GARDEN
AT FLOWER & GARDEN
The EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival is gorgeous — and overwhelming. Our Magical Guides Guide shows you exactly what’s worth your time, money, and stomach space (and what to skip).
Inside the guide:
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Full booth menus with photos + our Best of the Fest picks
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Smart booth crawls so you’re not zig-zagging the park
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Complete event schedules in one place
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Topiary locations, festival exclusive merch, and hidden extras
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Budget tips to help you prioritize the must-haves
GET THE FLOWER & GARDEN GUIDE
Have you done everything you’ve wanted to do at the Flower & Garden Festival? What’s still on your list to experience? Let us know in the comments below!
