🇧🇪 The flowers of Belgium
16 pages from Belgium: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them, across 9 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
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
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
Decoration
Maypole
A tall decorated pole at the heart of spring and summer festivals in Europe
🇩🇪 Germany and 6 more · Custom
Decoration
Flower Carpet of BrusselsTapis de Fleurs
A giant floral tapestry on Brussels’ Grand-Place every two years
🇧🇪 Belgium · Carpet or floor pattern, August
Mountain arnicaArnica montana
A yellow-flowered herb from Europe's uplands, used in herbal traditions
🇫🇷 France and 7 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Mountain arnica: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhlers Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain, 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
- Maypole: Uploaded by Mikael Häggström, CC0, source
- Flower Carpet of Brussels: Dossid, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hallerbos Bluebells: David Edgar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source