Day 2 of Disney’s Flower & Garden Festival: Specialty Gardens

Posted May 10, 2018 by Laurel Wanrow in My non-writing life / 0 Comments

Along with the extensive banks of flowers and topiatries, sample gardens flourished, some for people, some for wildlife.

Places to play.

Disney World 2018 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

Popular food crops for gardens, including crops as landscape plants!

Disney World 2018 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

Sweet potato ground cover, rosemary and sugarcane accents–as the earth becomes more developed, we’ll need to reconsider how we use every foot of ground.

Disney World 2018 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

And for insect control:

Purple Martin houses in Disney World 2018 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

Purple Martin houses, not just in Epcot but throughout the Disney World, to support these migrants from the Brazilian Amazon.

And the hottest topic right now, providing for pollinators.

Honeybee exhibit at Disney World 2018 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

Along with pollinator gardens were beekeeping & honey exhibits.

Honeybee exhibit at Disney World 2018 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

Honeybee exhibit at Disney World 2018 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

Honeybee exhibit at Disney World 2018 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

Epcot wasn’t the only park to feature a pollinator garden.

Disney World Animal Kingdom pollinator garden

Directions on developing your own Wildlife Habitat are available from the National Wildlife Federation.

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