Events and Conferences
WINTER 2016 5
The Flower Carpet of Grand-Place is 75m long by 24m wide . Volunteers assemble the entire design in less than four hours .
The Flower Carpet of Grand-Place has a different design every time and it is made out of roughly 700,000 begonias . Each square metre holds about 300 individual plants . More than 100 volunteer gardeners put this giant floral puzzle together in less than four hours . The day before the opening , the spaces between the floral motifs are filled in using rolls of sod . The flowers are closely-packed so that they can ´ t be blown away .
The first flower carpet on the Grand-Place was the work of landscape architect Etienne Stautemas . A graduate of the Horticultural College of Ghent , he began to create flower carpets in the early 1950 ´ s . Simpler and smaller , these ‘ rugs ’ were primarily composed of begonias . After years of testing and calculations , in 1971 the team of Etienne Stautemas and designer Mark Schautteet created the inaugural Grand-Place carpet . The team went on to create more than 180 carpets , across Europe , and as far afield as Buenos Aires and Columbus , Ohio . �
Events and Conferences
Sustainable Housing Summit 15 June – Auckland 17 June – Christchurch
Making Cities Liveable 27 – 28 June Pullman on the Park , Melbourne , Australia
2WALKandCYCLE 6 – 8 July Rendezvous Grand Hotel , Auckland
EDS Conference : Wild Places 10 -11 August Viaduct Events Centre , Auckland
2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture : Not in my Backyard 27 – 30 October Canberra , Australia
School of Landscape Architecture Research Symposium : Integrated Urban Grey and Green Infrastructure 9 – 10 November Lincoln University