A botanical park in the Belgian city of Meise has displayed 5,000 artificial red poppies in the shape of a dove on November 1 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. /VCG Photo

The red poppies are made out of red bottle caps with the help of pupils at a local school for children with learning difficulties. /VCG Photo

Pieter Franck, the botanical garden’s creative director, said that it was important to remember the fallen soldiers with the use of dove as the peace symbol, and Europe’s history so as to avoid another war. /VCG Photo

The Poppies – one of the only flowers that can grow in the poor conditions of a war-ravaged battlefield – had been widely adopted as a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died in the First World War since the 1920s. /VCG Photo