{"id":2465,"date":"2026-02-07T04:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/2465\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:21:15","slug":"tallinn-to-turn-muddy-downtown-square-into-vibrant-floral-meadow-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/2465\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallinn to turn muddy downtown square into vibrant floral meadow | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the heart of downtown, the City of Tallinn plans to transform the drab Theater Square into a riot of color with a rich floral urban meadow for pollinators.<\/p>\n<p>Tucked between Estonia Theater, Solaris Shopping Center and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the square has long been a drab, mostly empty plot. Muddy most of the year, metal barriers also block access between the busy bus stops flanking it, making it a spot most avoid.<\/p>\n<p>Now the city is filling it with native meadow plants, organized by color, to create a visually striking and ecologically beneficial space.<\/p>\n<p>Red, yellow, blue and white zones will feature a mix of annual and perennial flowers, from spreading bellflowers, wild carrot and sticky catchfly to Estonia&#8217;s iconic cornflowers and poppies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-photo-id=\"3127672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3127672h87edt24.jpg\"\/>Theater Square in Central Tallinn, seen through a muddy bus window. Source: Karin Koppel<\/p>\n<p>City communications specialist Kadri Karnau said the urban meadow will offer more food and habitats for bumblebees, honeybees, hoverflies, butterflies and moths.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that the color-coordinated patches will gradually blur as seeds naturally spread, forming new, multicolored plant communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First-year blooms will be mostly annual summer flowers like cornflowers, long-headed poppies, common corn-cockles and forking larkspur,&#8221; Karnau explained. &#8220;Starting in the second year, these will give way to perennials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project is one of several in the Estonian capital intended to boost greenery and biodiversity in the city&#8217;s public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Follow ERR News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ERRNews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/errnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and never miss an update!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the heart of downtown, the City of Tallinn plans to transform the drab Theater Square into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[89],"tags":[2778,167,2781,166,2780,2779],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallinn","tag-biodiversity","tag-estonia","tag-greenery","tag-tallinn","tag-theater-square","tag-urban-planning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}