Flower Carpet of Brussels - 2016

About Flower Carpet

The Flower Carpet is 75 m long by 24 m wide. 1,800 m2 of begonias, around 300 cut flowers per m2! 
A hundred volunteers assemble the carpet in 4 hours.
The  first Flower Carpet of Brussels was created in 1971 and has been a  showstopper every two years on the Grand-Place since 1986.

More than 100 volunteer gardeners put together this giant floral puzzle  in less than four hours. The day before the opening, the spaces between  the floral motifs are filled in using rolls of sod. The flowers are so  closely-packed (300 per square metre, i.e. around 600,000 flowers in  all!) that they can´t be blown away, and indeed they create their own  microclimate! If there´s a heat wave, the sod is watered to prevent it  from wilting. If the weather is too wet, the grass can grow by 4 to 5  centimetres in 3 days. The flowers remain fresh and preserve their splendour during the four days.