Columbia Road Flower Market
London markets have had to reinvent themselves for the twenty-first century, and Columbia Road is no exception.
The core of the market is still the Sunday cut flower market that goes back to the nineteeth century. Many of the traders now also offer live plants – a nicer way to buy a bamboo for your back garden or a banana plant for your flat than visiting one of the big out-of-town warehouses.
The colour and bustle of the market has a particular appeal to photographers. There are masses of flowers – particularly in early summer, when bedding plants for the windowboxes of …read more
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