🇧🇪 The flowers of Belgium
17 pages from Belgium: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them, across 10 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.
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
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
Decoration
Flower Carpet of BrusselsTapis de Fleurs
A giant floral tapestry on Brussels’ Grand-Place every two years
🇧🇪 Belgium · Carpet or floor pattern, August
Decoration
Bloemencorso
Annual flower parades with decorated floats in the Netherlands and Belgium
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 1 more · Parade or display
Decoration
Still life
Artworks showing arranged objects like flowers, fruit, and vessels
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 4 more · Art or design
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
- Flower carpet: Francisco Conde Sánchez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Maypole: Uploaded by Mikael Häggström, CC0, source
- Flower Carpet of Brussels: Dossid, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bloemencorso: Dekraaie, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Still life: Willem Kalf, Public domain, source
- Hallerbos Bluebells: David Edgar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source