New Covent Garden Flower Market

Updating my review to reflect the edited map marker. The New Covent Garden flower market is on the east side of the Embassy Gardens development, while the Covent Garden Boot Sale /​Produce Market is on the west side of the development.

Great place to visit if you need to pick up flowers/​plants etc. at the weekend — hit them «late» (i.e. on a Saturday morning at 9 — they close at 10), pay cash, and don’t be afraid to bargain !

This is great place to visit, or — of course — to buy flowers. Two minutes walk from the Tube, bus and Nat Rail stations at Vauxhall — there’s a pedestrian entrance on your right as you go down Wandsworth Road towards the railway bridge and Sainsburys. They will sell to the public, though often the smallest bunch might be 50 blooms. They effectively finish about 09.30, so it’s for early birds. As well as every conceivable cut flower, they sell plants (orchids, clipped box, etc) and all sorts of interesting things for extravagant floral displays, like candelabra, huge gold fish bowl vases — everything you see in flower displays in hotel lobbies! If you’re hard up, there’s plenty of freebies in the bins outside! There’s a café too, of course.