A great place to buy flowers in New York City is the Union Square Greenmarket. Even though most people think of fruits and vegetables, there are also a staggering variety of flowers available here.

Union Square (also known as Union Square Park) is an important and historic intersection in New York City, located where Broadway and the Bowery came together in the early 19th century. Today it is bounded by 14th Street, Union Square East, 17th Street, and Union Square West. It is run and operated jointly by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation as well as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York).

In 1976, the Council on the Environment of New York City established the Greenmarket program, which provided regional small family farmers with opportunities to sell their fruits, vegetables and other farm products at open-air markets in the city.

The most famous is the Union Square Greenmarket, held Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays between 8 AM and 6 PM year round. 250,000 customers a week purchase 1,000 varieties of fruits and vegetables at the market. The variety of produce available is broader by perhaps a factor of ten than what is found in a conventional supermarket.

Flowers are a crop for many farmers and often small farmers grow flowers as well as vegetables. At the Union Square Greenmarket you are sure to find a large variety of very high quality flowers.

Some information in this article is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.