St George’s Square carpeted with flowers

It took 100 people 12 weeks, 14 trucks, 80,000 pots and a dose of good teamwork to create Malta’s largest carpet of flowers in St George’s Square, Valletta. The potted flowers of colourful petunias and pansies, arranged overnight in the shape of a Maltese tile, were planted three months ago, timed to bloom together over an area of 400 square metres. “While usually we prepare thousands of plants over a number of weeks, for this occasion we had to prepare an unprecedented amount of flowers that have to bloom together. “It was challenging, but the team worked well together,” Charles Scerri,... This article is part of our premium content. Full story is available on Times of Malta Premium.