🇧🇪 The flowers of Belgium
11 pages from Belgium: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them, across 7 cities and regions.
The flowers, flower customs and flower places of Belgium on Phool. An overview of the country's plant life has not been written yet.
Flower experiences in Belgium
🇧🇪 Halle · AprilThe blue forest of HallerbosA beech forest south of Brussels whose floor turns violet blue with wild bluebells for about two weeks in April.
🇧🇪 Brussels · AugustThe Flower Carpet on the Grand-PlaceEvery second August, volunteers lay a carpet of begonia flowers across the paving of the main square of Brussels.Cities and regions of Belgium
Chrysanthemum菊花
Autumn-blooming flower with thousands of varieties, cherished in East Asia and beyond
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Wildflower
LindenTilia
Tall, broad-leaved trees with fragrant yellow flowers and heart-shaped leaves
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering tree
Sour cherryPrunus cerasus
The small, tart cherry tree grown for its sour red fruit
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Flowering tree
Decoration
May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Month-long Catholic customs honouring Mary with flowers, altars, and processions
🇮🇹 Italy and 7 more · Custom, May
Spring snowflakeLeucojum vernum
A white spring bulb with green or yellow-tipped flowers from central Europe
🇧🇪 Belgium and 7 more · Wildflower
Decoration
Flower carpet
Patterns made on the ground from fresh flowers or petals
🇧🇪 Belgium and 3 more · Carpet or floor pattern, Aug to Dec
Decoration
Maypole
A tall decorated pole at the heart of spring and summer festivals in Europe
🇩🇪 Germany and 6 more · Custom
Place
Botanical Garden of BrusselsJardin botanique de Bruxelles / Kruidtuin van Brussel
A historic city garden and cultural centre in central Brussels
Brussels, 🇧🇪 Belgium · Botanical garden
Greater Pasque FlowerPulsatilla grandis
A violet spring flower of open meadows and hillsides in central Europe
🇫🇷 France and 7 more · Wildflower
Place
Meise Botanic GardenPlantentuin Meise; Jardin botanique de Meise
A vast botanical garden on the grounds of Bouchout Castle near Brussels
Brussels, 🇧🇪 Belgium · Botanical garden
Place
Arboretum Kalmthout
A public botanical garden with rare trees and shrubs in Kalmthout, Belgium
Kalmthout, 🇧🇪 Belgium · Botanical garden
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary: Žemaitijos kelias, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chrysanthemum: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL 1.2, source
- Prunus: Benjamin Gimmel, BenHur, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Linden: Bruce Marlin, CC BY 3.0, source
- Botanical Garden of Brussels: No machine-readable author provided. Ben2~commonswiki assumed (based o, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Meise Botanic Garden: Rudi Devuyst, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Arboretum Kalmthout: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Flower carpet: Francisco Conde Sánchez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Spring snowflake: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Maypole: Uploaded by Mikael Häggström, CC0, source
- Greater Pasque Flower: Eleassar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hallerbos Bluebells: David Edgar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Brussels Flower Carpet: Dossid, CC BY-SA 4.0, source