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Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

FNGLA's Garden: Backyard Play

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The 2012 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival promises to be another exceptional event and another exceptional opportunity for FNGLA to showcase the industry and Florida's gardening offerings to the expected attendance of over 2 million consumers. 2012 marks FNGLA's 14th year of participation.

As an official festival partner, FNGLA will serve as the host organization to the returning theme of Children's Gardenining focused on family gardening fun. The garden area is titled Backyard Play. The display sets a “backyard look and feel” and will incorprate a variety of fun gardening elements easily recreated by virtually any home gardener such as a green roof dog house, a topiary pet yard, a soup garden, pizza garden, pie garden, a planted bamboo tunnel, a vine-covered playhouse, and a variety of garden crafts such as stepping stones, bird baths and the like. This garden will literally have something for the kid in each of us; from passionate gardener to even those with the most minimal of gardening interests, there's interesting textures, colors and take-home ideas for gardeners of all ages.

VOLUNTEER IN THE GARDEN!
FNGLA is seeking members and FNGLA certified professionals to serve as garden hosts and to assist park guests for the opening day and then each Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the festival: March 7 - May 20, 2012. Volunteers can pick from two different 3-hour shifts: noon - 3:00 p.m. or from 3:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.

While we are able to allow gardening qualified friends and spouses to serve as FNGLA volunteers, they must be able to fulfill the duties serving as a host answering gardening questions and interacting with park guests. We cannot allow children to participate. All FNGLA volunteers gain entrance to the park for the day of their commitment to the FNGLA Garden and are free to enjoy Epcot and the festival before and after their volunteer time. FNGLA Certified Professional will also receive 2 CEUs for their volunteer service.

MORE ABOUT FNGLA's THE ART OF LIVING GREEN GARDEN

FNGLA's 2012 "Backyard Play" will be located directly off "the loop" of the international showcase between Morocco and France - the same premier site of the last several years of gardens. With the 2012 garden, FNGLA hopes to showcase plants as part of a sustainable lifestyle, and not simply as ornamental elements of a home. An estimated 2.4 million guests are expected to visit Epcot during the festival which includes several holidays. The FNGLA garden area is always a heavily attended garden area within the festival. FNGLA is delighted to partner with the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival to spotlight plants as an everyday enjoyment, a family-centered activity and part of the solution for our sustainability effort.

For specific program questions, contact the FNGLA office or send an e-mail to FNGLA's Director of Public Relations and Marketing, Jennifer Nelis at jnelis@fngla.org