Tag: Festival

National Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates 100 years

News from Fox News: In 1912, Japan gave 3,000 cherry blossoms to the United States, honoring the friendship between the two countries. Although the festival is usually two weeks long, in honor of the 100-year milestone, the 2012 festival will be an epic 5-week celebration from March 20 to April 27. “The excitement and commitment [...]

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Disney blossoms again for Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

News from Chicago Tribune: Tradition is front and center at this year’s Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. Inside the front entrance of the theme park is a flower bed themed to the Disney classic movie “Fantasia,” which debuted in 1940. “We wanted to go more traditional this year, and what’s a more traditional topiary [...]

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Disney blossoms again for Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

News from Baltimore Sun: Tradition is front and center at this year’s Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. Inside the front entrance of the theme park is a flower bed themed to the Disney classic movie “Fantasia,” which debuted in 1940. “We wanted to go more traditional this year, and what’s a more traditional topiary [...]

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Epcot gears up for ‘Flower & Garden Festival’

News from WKMG Orlando: Small Text Medium Text Large Text The 2012 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival will begin blooming soon. In just over a month, the park will roll out its 19th festival and the third with HGTV as a sponsor. One of the highlights promises to be the Sorcerer Mickey topiary that’s [...]

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Epcot Details 2012 Flower and Garden Festival Events, HGTV Presentations

News from Stitch Kingdom: The Walt Disney World official website has updated its pages for the 2012 International Flower & Garden Festival at Epcot to reflect special opportunities and presentations by HGTV stars for guests to experience. The festival is presented by HGTV and will take place between March 7, 2012 and May 20, 2012. [...]

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Flower festival kicks off Year of the Dragon

News from OCRegister: WESTMINSTER—Sandy Nguyen points to her orchids and knows which ones her customers will purchase. The Chinese and Vietnamese customers at this year’s Flower Festival will likely choose bright yellow and red orchids. The red ones are simply happy. And the yellow ones are particularly favored for the New Year because they are [...]

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Forever Paws animal shelter in Fall River to host Festival of Trees fundraiser

News from Fall River Herald News: As a kick-off to the Christmas season, Forever Paws will hold its fifth annual Festival of Trees to benefit the no-kill shelter on Sunday, Nov. 6, at the Fall River Country Club from noon to 5 p.m. “We’ll have at least 55 trees,” said Gail Furtado, Forever Paws president. [...]

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Walt Disney World’s Wine, Dine, Flower, Garden and Golf Festival

News from DIS Unplugged: Posted on Tuesday, 4th October 2011 by Dave Parfitt Are you one of those families that are only able to come to Walt Disney World once a year, or once every few years?  Have you been forced to choose between Epcot’s popular Flower and Garden Festival in the spring and the [...]

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Flower and Garden Festival blooms at PSC’s Milton campus

News from Gulf Breeze News:The 14th annual Emerald Coast Flower & Garden Festival – presented by Pensacola State College, the University of Florida and Friends of the Gardens of Northwest Florida – is a free event held April 8-10 on Pensacola State’s Milton campus, 5988 Highway 90 West. ——————————————————————— You must be an online subscriber [...]

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