Landscaping Downgrades at WDW

[TrainsOfDisney]

I don’t know how this would work - but could portable heaters have saved some of the plants? It was so cold and windy I’m not sure if that would be possible.

 

[Comped]

Of course you took this instead of the hundreds of photos you could have taken of beautifully landscaped areas around the park.

As someone who literally lives a few minutes away from property, the majority of homeowners near Walt Disney World are struggling with landscaping related damage from the freeze, everything from dead potted plants to frozen bushes to palm trees... And a lot of very brown grass. I was at Animal Kingdom over the weekend and saw the damage, and it was significant and very widespread, trying to claim somehow only one small photograph worth of plants was damaged is simply not correct.

 

[wdrive]

I don’t know how this would work - but could portable heaters have saved some of the plants? It was so cold and windy I’m not sure if that would be possible.

I guess it could have helped, but at DAK specifically there’s so many plants and many in difficult areas to access, never mind install and power a heater, it would have been an almost impossible task.

 

[peter11435]

As someone who literally lives a few minutes away from property, the majority of homeowners near Walt Disney World are struggling with landscaping related damage from the freeze, everything from dead potted plants to frozen bushes to palm trees... And a lot of very brown grass. I was at Animal Kingdom over the weekend and saw the damage, and it was significant and very widespread, trying to claim somehow only one small photograph worth of plants was damaged is simply not correct.

That was not what this was referring to. The photo in question and my post you quoted was from before the freeze in Florida. There is obviously extensive and widespread landscape damage.

The poster was showing that photo trying to claim landscaping downgrades at WDW unrelated to any freeze impacts. They cropped the photo to make things look bad while ignoring all of the beautifully landscaped areas around the park.

 

[Comped]

That was not what this was referring to. The photo in question and my post you quoted was from before the freeze in Florida. There is obviously extensive and widespread landscape damage.

The poster was showing that photo trying to claim landscaping downgrades at WDW unrelated to any freeze impacts. They cropped the photo to make things look bad while ignoring all of the beautifully landscaped areas around the park.

Ah! My mistake!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Jack Frost? Pfft. We all know who was ACTUALLY responsible...

 

[Disone]

Jack Frost? Pfft. We all know who was ACTUALLY responsible...

Just let it go....

 

[DisneyCane]

As someone who literally lives a few minutes away from property, the majority of homeowners near Walt Disney World are struggling with landscaping related damage from the freeze, everything from dead potted plants to frozen bushes to palm trees... And a lot of very brown grass. I was at Animal Kingdom over the weekend and saw the damage, and it was significant and very widespread, trying to claim somehow only one small photograph worth of plants was damaged is simply not correct.

The only thing that they might have been able to do is spray water so the ice would form and act as an insulator like they used to do on citrus trees before all the groves grew houses. There is no practical way to heat that kind of area unfortunately.


I'm in South Florida and I just got some new sod put in and out arrived pretty brown. My landscaper said the sod farm told him it would recover and it was due to the freeze.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Just let it go....

We told her that, but she was mad because they closed her ride. Now it's back open and she's happily singing in there all day instead of drinking around the world. And of course, it's warmer.

 

[tparris]

That was not what this was referring to. The photo in question and my post you quoted was from before the freeze in Florida. There is obviously extensive and widespread landscape damage.

The poster was showing that photo trying to claim landscaping downgrades at WDW unrelated to any freeze impacts. They cropped the photo to make things look bad while ignoring all of the beautifully landscaped areas around the park.

I wasn’t intentionally ignoring any of the wonderfully landscaped areas of the park, of which I know there are many more than the lackluster one I showed. It was a lighthearted post, you didn’t need to take it so seriously.

 

[Coaster Lover]

You know what would have prevented this? If they had finally built that dome over the property!

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

It is good to know that many of the plants were “damaged” but not killed off by the freeze - they will grow back.

And I will continue to say how nice it was to see landscaping return to the MK specifically. So many more flowers out than my last visit - much closer to Disneyland. Resorts seemed to be improved as well.

 

[Stripes]

It is good to know that many of the plants were “damaged” but not killed off by the freeze - they will grow back.

And I will continue to say how nice it was to see landscaping return to the MK specifically. So many more flowers out than my last visit - much closer to Disneyland. Resorts seemed to be improved as well.

Was your visit to MK before or after the freeze?

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Was your visit to MK before or after the freeze?

During. So I saw before and after.

But the landscaping issues I was originally talking about had to do with the flowers - they could easily be covered during the freeze and were not affected.

The freeze hurt the many large tropical trees and plants around the resort - that’s why Polynesian and DAK got hit especially hard.

 

[JerseyMan95]

I don’t know how this would work - but could portable heaters have saved some of the plants? It was so cold and windy I’m not sure if that would be possible.

Journey of Water was closed for a day and half because they had massive heaters in the area to help keep the plants from dying.

To my knowledge, Mexico took the hardest hit where pretty much the whole pavilion needed to be replanted.

 

[Stripes]

Journey of Water was closed for a day and half because they had massive heaters in the area to help keep the plants from dying.

To my knowledge, Mexico took the hardest hit where pretty much the whole pavilion needed to be replanted.

Have they replanted tropical plants already or waiting until mid-March/April when it warms up?

 

[JerseyMan95]

Have they replanted tropical plants already or waiting until mid-March/April when it warms up?

I believe they have already replanted Mexico. There may be a few small areas that haven’t been touched yet. Horticulture team has done an incredible job these last few weeks with getting F&G ready and replanting after the freeze.