Really, we are. HGTV is sponsoring the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival March 2 through May 15. Anyone going around that time? Come see us. We’ll be at Epcot in person every Friday through Sunday*. Of particular interest to Design Happens friends, Brian Patrick Flynn will be there March 25-27 demonstrating how to build a mobile garden. Swing by and offer to treat him to a Dole Whip! Over the course of the event we’ll also have Vern Yip, Genevieve Gorder, Patti Moreno, John Gidding and more.
Any reporting you’d like to see from the Festival? Want to know how they make those topiaries?
We can show you how to make a simple topiary, but we’ll leave the dragons to the Imagineers.
*Correction: I originally wrote Thursday-Monday. Those are the talent travel dates. They’ll be appearing Friday-Sunday.
March 4-6
Genevieve Gorder, HGTV Design Star and Dear Genevieve
The Art of Sculpting Space
March 11-13
Lisa LaPorta, Designed to Sell
Design It Yourself: Easy-to-follow Tips
for Designing Your Favorite Rooms
March 18-20
Kim Myles, Myles of Style
The 5 DIY Secrets That Can Transform Any Space
March 25-27
Brian Patrick Flynn, Design Happens, HGTV.com
Mobile Gardens
April 1-3
Taniya Nayak, Designed to Sell and Destination Design
Adding Value to Your Home Without Breaking the Bank
April 8-10
Ahmed Hassan, Yard Crashers
Life, Love and Landscaping
April 15-17
Patti Moreno, Garden Girl, HGTV.com
Gardening with Kids: Fun Seed Starting Projects
April 22-24
Michele Beschen, B. Original
When Nature Calls: Creative, Back-to-Basics Style
for All Things Natural and Decorative
April 29-May 1
John Gidding, Curb Appeal: The Block
The Design Process: Curb Appeal Projects
from Concept to Construction
May 6-8
Frank Fontana, Design on a Dime
Beautiful on a Budget: High Style, Low-Cost Secrets
to Bringing Indoor Styling Outside
May 13-15
Vern Yip, HGTV Design Star
Top Design Trends Made Affordable and Accessible
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Yay! I Love HGTV and I will be at Disney from March 9 – 14th so I am going to see Lisa Laporta!!
I am excited!!
One Creepy Plant they show on the tour of the land In Disney world was the TIckleMe Plant. It is a real house plant that MOVE when Tickle it! The leaves instantly fold up and the branches droop when tickled!
Just google Pet TickleMe Plant This is real and now easy to grow indoors year-round
Just wish someone would do an occasional show for seniors who can no longer bend to the ground but still want yard flowers–not all in container. Couldn't any of these terrific folk have a display of ideas for this? We are an aging population. From an HGTV Addict : )
Great idea! Also for thoseof us in condos with limited space.
omg, i will go there to see my favorite designer, lisa laporta in march!
It's about time HGTV sponsored an event like the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival! What a perfect venue for HGTV to present it's H &G personalities!
If you have not attended the Festival, it is a MUST see for any gardening enthusiast. I spoke at the festival, twice and can say it was one of the highlights of my career!
The themed gardens are amazing and what I like the most is the "inside look" into the making of their floating gardens, topiaries and more.
Great news!
Shirley Bovshow
Garden World Report Show
Wish I could go to Epcot to see Vern !! I love him !! Watched him since his days on Trading Spaces!! He is the best!!
I HAVE WANTED TO SEE THE FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW FOR SO LONG. WE WILL BE THERE MARCH 22 AND 23. LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. I LIKE MY GARDEN TO LOOK LIKE NATURE
My sentiments exactly, my first love is horticulture and I have been toying with the idea of a portable stand/ table on wheels where the Seniors (including me) can wheel around and have their hands in the soil and really enjoy gardening again!! It is wonderful for stress relief and so rewarding!!
Lets create a hook- on kind of tray, like a meal tray where easy reach potting soil, shovel & pot can be placed in a central compartment area (no sliding around…..)
See you at EPCOT, never miss it!! This year we have the fairies from Pixie Hollow……..yes!!
Yippee! I'll be at Epcot and will get to see Vern!!
Sooo excited about coming to see this event but espeically for Frank Fontana!!!!
we are so happy that you are coming to Epcot!!!! all our friends and family can't wait to see Frank Fontana with HGTV in action!!! they are going to come from all over they are so exited !!!!
We'll be at Disney from March 1-7, so I'll be looking for Genevieve Gorder, I've been watching her since her barefoot days on Trading Spaces – Love Her – Woot!
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Will you do a show on TV showing the Walt Disney WOrld Flower show? If so when will it air.
I am so excited! I haven't been to disney for many years. We are arriving March 6.
I saw your commercial for this show and thought: Oh no, i'm going to miss this. But I will be able to see it, yeah!!!!!
Will miss genevive tho. To bad. But those beautiful flowers. Can't wait.
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I sure could use yard crashers ,my husband and I are senoir citizens, can not dig weed any more but love to sit in our yard!!!!
We left Disney on Feb.28 but got to see some of the flower gardens. Just beautiful!! We would love to
see a show on HGTV covering the event.
HGTV is the BEST show on TV bar none! I only wish I had the talent that you have. Would love to talk to you all. My husband and I have learned so much from you.. THANKS!
Don't forget to stop by the exhibiting artists who are featured at the festival this year. If you love watercolors and nature, go see Rachel Tribble. She's fantastic. I hope the HGTV cameras catch her during their taping.
Please send for me!!!!!!!!!! I'm so sick of this weather in Illinois!!!! No break in sight. Viv4nier@att.net
haha I was there! We were just eating in the French restaurant, and I saw Vern Yip! He was one table over! It was awesome.
We were there April 28th-May 3rd and admired the gardens mostly at night because it was so hot out during the day. I wish I would've known they were doing My Yard Goes Disney. that'd be a dream come true for us we love Disney and the gardens there. Our yard looks more like the twilight tower of terror
Why doesn't David Bromstad ever appear at this? Doesn't he live in Miami? I've seen Vern and Genevieve and hope to see John Gooding this year. We love the Flower and Garden show at Epcot