The Flower Kart opens on the corner of Main and Plattekill

Linda and Trish Saylor. (photo by Rich Corozine)

Linda Saylor is a nurse who has always liked flowers. So, perpetually teased by her co-workers, she decided to do what they always figured she’d do. “Have a flower cart in New Paltz,” laughs Saylor. So, with her daughter Trish, an incoming New Paltz High School senior, she has gotten a permit for a cart — called appropriately: The Flower Kart — to operate at the corner of Main and Plattekill, on the sidewalk right in front of Starbucks. They’ll be there every Thursday through Sunday (weather permitting), selling bouquets and other small arrangements (plus even single flowers) through the Fall.