For the past few days I've been stationed at Disney's Fantasia Gardens near the Disney Swan and Dolphin Resort properties. Fantasia Gardens is a 36 hole miniature golf course themed around the Disney animated feature movie "Fantasia". Work begins early at 4:30am each day in order to accomplish several tasks before the 10:00am opening. It was unbelievable to see the workforce that is required to operate and maintain the course. Individuals working include: four people on paint crew (they touch up / repaint the holes each night); ten people on mow crew (they prepare all the grounds), two mechanics (they repair / maintain all mechanical features on each hole), five landscape maintenance individuals (they install / maintain various aspects of the course), lastly one garden specialist and myself working alongside him. All these individuals are required to operate / maintain this miniature golf course! Its an army of people.
Fantasia Gardens has one permanent staffed "garden specialist" (horticulture professional) that determines various aspects of landscape design / upkeep procedures throughout the course. This is who I worked with over the past few days. Garden specialist are placed at every location at Walt Disney World. Depending on the size of the location their will be several on staff. Working along side Fantasia Gardens garden specialist I learned about various techniques regarding irrigation, fertilization, planting placement, themed elements of design, lighting, and plant identification.
Tomorrow morning at 2:00am I will be moving to Typhoon Lagoon water park to work with their staffed garden specialist in the area. I will be at Typhoon Lagoon all next week also and then transition to Blizzard Beach the following week. In the mean time... time for bed!
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