Valletta’s streets are turning green over the weekend with 80,000 flower pots and plants set up around the capital at the launch of the Valletta Green Festival on Friday.
A quarter of the plants will remain in Valletta once the festival is over on Tuesday, with the rest donated to local councils to repot in their localities.
The festival kicked off on Friday as Culture Minister Jose Herrera, Energy Minister Miriam Dalli and Valletta Cultural Agency chair Jason Micallef unveiled a flower display featuring a turtle in St George’s Square Valletta.
With the theme of "zero pollution", Micallef said the eighth edition of the festival is the largest ever and included shrubs and plants along Republic Street as well as "a small garden" in front of Parliament in Freedom Square.