Overview
- Disney Parks Blog, which published its profile Friday, features Gary’s four-decade rise from EPCOT gardener to Urban Forester leading a team that tends thousands of trees.
- He has supported every EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival since 1994 through crane work, overnight installs, and large topiary setups.
- His projects include relocating massive trees and helping shape the alien plant life in Pandora – The World of Avatar at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
- He argues mature trees matter most because they provide deep shade, environmental gains, and a lasting sense of place that young plantings cannot match.
- Disney capped the feature with a new Disney Unscripted episode that takes viewers behind the festival’s greenhouses and gardens.