“The Grand Place in Brussels, the capital of Belgium is for a few short days every two years awash with begonias. 2012 is a year on and so the people of the city decided that this year their Flower Carpet, made up of blooms all grown in the Ghent area, would pay a mulch-colored tribute to the patterns of Africa. Brussels was officially founded at the end of the tenth century so it would be forgivable if you thought that this was one of those European festivals that had been going on for hundreds of years. In fact the Flower Carpet’s origin is distinctly modern – it began in the early 1970s when a local landscape artist, E. Stautemans, had his eureka moment.” w/ photos
