Festival Center Walkaround Photos

Cover Photo : Festival Center Walkaround

The Greenhouse Stage in Epcot's Festival Center.

Every audience member that attends the Greenhouse Stage presentation received a small plant and a cool Flower and Garden Festival bag!

The cast members in the Festival Center get to wear these really cool purple shirts!

It's so much fun trying to figure out what that little plant is! I read the orange plastic tab that was in the planter, and I still don't know! I guess we'll see what it is, when it grows up!

Central Florida authors Pam Brandon, Katie Farmand and Heather McPherson take the stage to introduce the day's guest speaker.

The Brandon, Farmand and McPherson team have penned quite a few books over the years!

Florida farmer Jerry Dakin from the Dakin Dairy Farms takes the stage to talk about his family farm, and to take a few questions.

Heather McPherson mingles with the audience to help field questions.

Jerry Dakin from the Dakin Dairy Farms talks to guests in the "book autograph" area.

From left to right... Jerry Dakin from the Dakin Dairy Farms, Heather McPherson, Pam Brandon, and Katie Farmand.

There are booths and presentations set up around the Festival Center where you can chat with various gardeners and farmers.

It's so much fun getting to talk to the various growers. They really know their stuff. You don't have to be an expert to talk to them though. A simple question like "so what do you guys do?" is enough to get a conversation going.

The plants in here are amazing. Did I mention it's air conditioned?

From left to right - Tiffany Dale, Director of Member Services and Community Relations and Strawberry Sue Harrell, the Director of Marketing for the Florida Strawberry Growers Association.

These well dressed gardeners are proudly showing off their "Florida Grown!" Strawberry fans they picked up at the FSGA booth.

It's ShellieMay (Duffy's Girlfriend) dressed in her garden outfit.

Awe... tiny fairy houses!!!

There's even a live band! These ladies were from D&A Nursery, and they were pretty darn good! How cool is that!

The "Fresh Epcot Stage" is where Epcot's Food & Wine Festival Culinary Demos are held.

The presenter was Jenks Farmer a nationally known author, speaker, garden designer and nursery owner.

Jenks talked a little bit about vegetables and Crinums, both of which were being displayed on the stage.

Jenks took a couple of questions from the audience. You can tell he's comfortable giving presentations and talking in front of people.

Guests of the presentation received a small packet of Sunhemp Crotalaria Juncea seeds, and could ask additional questions if they didn't feel comfortable doing so during the presentation.

These have yellow flowers! That's all I know about Sunhemp, so I can't wait until they start growing and I can see what they are!