{"id":4012,"date":"2012-04-25T08:20:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T12:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2014-02-16T16:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T21:04:49","slug":"epcot-flower-and-garden-festival-mexico-norway-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=4012","title":{"rendered":"Epcot Flower and Garden Festival 2012 &#8211; Mexico, Norway, and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, we&#8217;ll proceed around World Showcase, starting with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>This year, instead of the cocktiels seen in recent years, there are numerous displays of orchids&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-24\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-24.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orchids have a short bloom-span<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-25.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">nora has never really liked orchids as corsages, but they&#8217;re lovely blooming &#8220;wild&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-26\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-26.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This display is located near the Cantina San Angel counter-service<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-27\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-27.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The purple orchid is very vibrant!<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-28\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-28.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">These orchids were off the main walkway, they are more showy in terms of color and texture<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-29\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-29.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wonderful close-up<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Next on our tour of World Showcase&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Norway! The gianormous troll is missing this year. It seems that the only &#8220;showy&#8221; display at Norway is atop the outdoor seating area for Kringla Bakeri og Cafe.<\/p>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-30.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"315\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>And the third country on today&#8217;s tour&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>China. While these pandas are pretty impressive feats of topiary, they aren&#8217;t as amazing as the ones we saw in 2005 (of course, those weren&#8217;t really live plants, they were made of coconut husks).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-31\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-31.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"412\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pandas outside of Nine Dragons Restaurant<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none \" alt=\"2012-flower-and-garden-missed-first-time-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/flower-and-garden-2012-missed-first-time\/2012-flower-and-garden-missed-first-time-5.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">2012 is the Year of the Dragon<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none \" alt=\"2012-flower-and-garden-missed-first-time-6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/flower-and-garden-2012-missed-first-time\/2012-flower-and-garden-missed-first-time-6.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"506\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bromeliad dragon makes a reappearance (only this year he has flame colored plants coming from his mouth!)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, we&#8217;ll proceed around World Showcase, starting with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>This year, instead of the cocktiels seen in recent years, there are numerous displays of orchids&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orchids have a short bloom-span<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">nora has never really liked orchids as corsages, but they&#8217;re lovely blooming &#8220;wild&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This display is located near the Cantina San Angel <\/p>\n<p>continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=4012\">Epcot Flower and Garden Festival 2012 &#8211; Mexico, Norway, and China<\/a> &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epcot-flower-garden-festival","tag-epcot-theme-park","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13146,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/13146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}