A Flower Festival With 1M Blossoms Will Blanket The West Village

WEST VILLAGE, NY — A festival will transform the Meatpacking District within the West Village this weekend into a wonderland of more than one million flowers, over a hundred florists, and floral installations and designs as far as the eye can see.

Over 100 florists will descend on the Gansevoort Plaza Friday night, blanketing it with flowers and placing floral installations throughout the West Village neighborhood.

It is the first annual L.E.A.F. Festival of Flowers, which will be a European-style flower market based in the Gansevoort Plaza and feature more than 20 of New York's most popular florists. L.E.A.F was founded in 2019 by Moria Breslin and is an "independent organization championing the world of horticulture."

The event was organized in partnership with the Meatpacking District BID, the real estate development company TF Cornerstone, and the beer company Stella Artois.

The flower festival will take place Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

“In a city with an abundance of great florist talent and floral designers, I am so pleased to present L.E.A.F, our first annual Festival of Flowers,” said Breslin, Founder of L.E.A.F. “It’s been through the support of our incredible community and partners - especially the Meatpacking District, TF Cornerstone and all the Florists - that we’ve been able to make this a reality. We are delighted to provide a platform for a new generation of florists to showcase their talents, transforming the Meatpacking District into a riot of color - a gift for all New Yorkers throughout the weekend of L.E.A.F.”

While the main festival will take place in Gansevoort Plaza at 38 Gansevoort Street, L.E.A.F also engaged over 100 florists to design a series of installations within retail storefronts in the Meatpacking District and greater West Village area.

Here is a map of where those installations will be:

You can find out more information about the L.E.A.F Festival of Flowers on its website.

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