Tag: Walt Disney World horticulture
Take a look behind the blooms at Epcot’s Flower & Garden Festival and find out what’s new for 2017
Posted onKristin Ford, AllEars.Net's family blogger, recently spoke with Eric Darden, horticulture manager for the Flower and Garden Festival, at the Tables in Wonderland preview event about all the exciting additions this year. Darden has been a Walt Disney World cast member for 30 years and served as the foreman of the topiary team at the first Flower and Garden Festival 24 years ago.
Original cast member discusses horticulture’s role in decorating Walt Disney World for holidays
Posted onThe first time I met Heather Will-Browne, a horticulture area manager at Walt Disney World, it wasn't in person. Instead, my family and I watched her on the Travel Channel special "Walt Disney World Holidays with Samantha Brown" that aired in the early 2000s. Will-Browne discusses the resort's famous hanging poinsettia balls with host Brown, and they joke about the pronunciation of "poinsettia."

