CONFIRMED: These 4 Things Will RETURN to the 2024 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival

Disney4me · December 14, 2023

Have you heard the huge EPCOT festival news?

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The 2024 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival will begin on February 28th, 2024! We don’t have tons of details about next year’s event yet, but there are a couple of things that Disney has confirmed will return to the fest next year.

According to Disney, the Garden Rocks Concert Series will return in 2024! The concert series takes place at the America Gardens Theater in the American Adventure Pavilion.

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Garden Rocks Concert

The Garden Rocks concerts are free with EPCOT admission. Typically, internationally known artists perform Friday through Monday, while local bands rock the house Tuesday through Thursday.

If you want to reserve your spot at a certain concert, you can book a Garden Rocks Dining Package. Purchasing a package gets you guaranteed seating at that evening’s performance along with a meal at one of the EPCOT restaurants.

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Garden Rocks 2022

While we know that dining packages will return in 2024, we’re still waiting on details about the concert lineup and which restaurants will be available to book. Participating restaurants in 2023 included Akershus Royal Banquet Hall, Biergarten Restaurant, Coral Reef Restaurant, The Garden Grill Restaurant, Le Cellier, Rose & Crown Pub & Dining Room, Spice Road Table, and Regal Eagle Smokehouse. (Regal Eagle had same-day dining packages.)

Garden Rocks

Another returning feature in 2024 will be the Disney Character topiaries and garden spaces around the park. We love checking out all the incredible topiaries in EPCOT during this event!

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Three Caballeros Topiary

In 2023, a few new topiaries were added, including some Encanto characters and Princess Tiana. We can’t wait to see what Disney’s dreamed up for 2024.

Princess Tiana Topiary at the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival

On the Disney website, it’s also been confirmed that the Garden Graze will return next year. The Garden Graze is a plant-based food stroll throughout the festival (kind of like the Cookie Stroll at the EPCOT Festival of Holidays).

2023 Garden Graze

To complete the Garden Graze, you need to pick up a Festival Passport and take a look at the qualifying items listed inside. You’ll pick a certain number of those items (it was five in 2023) and purchase them, collecting stamps as you buy the food. Once you have all the spaces stamped in your passport, you can turn it in for a special prize! Last year, the prize was soft serve in a souvenir cup.

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Last year’s Garden Graze prize

One more activity has been confirmed as returning in 2024: the Festival Scavenger Hunt! In years past, the scavenger hunt has been themed to Spike the Bee, who’s a sort of mascot for the festival.

Spike’s Pollen-Nation Exploration Map

You purchase a scavenger hunt map and stickers, look for Spike throughout the park, mark down where he’s located with the stickers, and then turn in your completed map for a prize!

2023 Spike’s Pollen Nation Exploration PRIZES!

We’ll be on the lookout for more news about next year’s festival, so stay tuned to DFB for all the latest updates!

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