EPCOT Landscaping Updates Continue Across World Celebration and World Nature

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Tuesday August 11, 2026 9:51am ET · "EPCOT"
EPCOT Landscaping Updates Continue Across World Celebration and World Nature
EPCOT's landscape refresh adds Sylvester palms to World Celebration and World Nature, with four new trees planted near CommuniCore Plaza, Imagination, and Journey of Water.

EPCOT is continuing its landscaping updates, with new palm trees now planted across World Celebration and World Nature.

Three new Sylvester palms have gone in between CommuniCore Plaza and the Imagination! pavilion. Another new Sylvester palm now stands outside Journey of Water Inspired by Moana in World Nature.

Sylvester palms tolerate cold better than some of the palm varieties previously used around EPCOT. Based on this latest round of changes, Disney appears to be leaning toward more cold-tolerant palm species for the ongoing landscape refresh.

These additions follow the recent palm replacement at the EPCOT entrance plaza, where new Sylvester palms took the place of cold-damaged foxtail palms on each side of Spaceship Earth.

If the pattern continues, expect to see more cold-tolerant palm varieties show up elsewhere in EPCOT as the refresh continues.

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↩ replying to tparris
Middle ground for Disney these days is adding more tap cons... Adding a fountain would mean more infrastructure, pump room etc... I would think they are going to skate on the Mulva planter for years to come.
↩ replying to Bocabear
I didn’t mean a fountain, just a slight reimagining of what’s there.
↩ replying to trainplane3
Beautiful Video, thanks for sharing!! Marie
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https://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/Epcot/news/11aug2026-is-disney-finally-fixing-the-epcot-world-celebration-gardens-lighting-issues.htm
↩ replying to wdwmagic
Photos from today or yesterday?
TDO: "Work around the center spine at Epcot? What work around the center spine at Epcot?"
EPCOT Landscaping Updates Continue Across World Celebration and World Nature
Ongoing landscaping work at EPCOT is bringing new Sylvester palms to World Celebration and World Nature, continuing a refresh that started at the entrance plaza. The cold-tolerant species is replacing varieties that struggled with lower temperatures, with four new palms now in place near CommuniCore Plaza, the Imagination! pavilion, and Journey of Water.

https://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/Epcot/news/11aug2026-epcot-landscaping-updates-continue-across-world-celebration-and-world-nature.htm
↩ replying to tparris
This morning - Aug 11
↩ replying to wdwmagic
You know what would look really good in the center? Instead of a questionably designed planter arrangement, a fountain.
↩ replying to wdwmagic
GOOD SHOW DISNEY!!
↩ replying to wdwmagic
Was there last night and saw the cloaking devices installed. Nothing obvious was being done but the concrete is in bad shape. It wouldn’t surprise me if they just removed it and filled it in.
↩ replying to Bocabear
How many more can they install? All of them?
↩ replying to Br0ckford
;)
↩ replying to monothingie
"Cloaking devices".. 🤣 I am so stealing that one! (if you don't mind...)
↩ replying to wdwmagic
Aside from tolerating the cold better, they have a beautiful aesthetic to them.