More than 173,000 pots of plants and herbs form a flower carpet in front of the city hall in Antwerp, Belgium, on Monday, June 8, 2015. To celebrate the 450th anniversary of the Antwerp city hall, artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven selected 31 different species to create a design of large geometric figures in bright sixties colors. Van Kerckhoven found inspiration in the Renaissance floor of the Plantin-Moretus museum and in a map of the city by the river Scheldt, which dates from 1575, and includes the river bend. The carpet measures 60 by 30 meters (196 by 98 feet).
Geert Wijngaert Associated Press