Sunday, September 30, 2012

Flower Carpet 2012








Here is a drawing of what the carpet would look like

Every 2 years, since 1971, The Grand-Place in Brussels is covered with a flower carpet of begonias.  The carpet measures 77 m X 24 m and is worked on by about 120 volunteers that use nearly one million begonias.  

The begonia was chosen above all for its qualities of robustness, resistance to bad weather and strong sunshine.  By using the begonia it guarantees the long life and freshness of the carpet.  It also gives a very rich range of colors.  "From very vivid colors to the delicate pastel shades, they all reflect the light so well."

Each year it has a theme.  This year the Flower Carpet was dedicated to Africa.  It consisted of drawings of people from Ethiopia, Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon and Botswana.

The day that we went down was VERY HOT.  Brussels was having "unseasonably" warm weather.  It was that way pretty much the entire time the Flower Carpet was going on.  We went on the last day. The kids were tired, as we had just gotten back from Disneyland Paris the day before after spending a week there.  Before that...we were in the US.  We didn't really "feel" like going out, but this was one of those things that Jason and I didn't want to pass up.  It only comes around every other year and you never know, right?!










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