Local Garden Centres

Gardening advice

31 Jan

Shops on our doorstep

Geranium is a specialist food, gift and grocery shop at the base of Lauderdale Tower which also sells plants. It has limited opening hours: 11am - 6pm Thursday and Friday; 10am - 4pm on Saturdays.

Longmans Flo rist ‘The Barbican’ has a selection of indoor and outdoor plants, plant pots and compost. It’s located at 26 Goswell Road. Open 8am - 6:30pm Monday - Friday; 8am - 5pm Saturday; Closed Sundays.

Barbican Ha rdware,6-10 Goswell Road sells compost and gardening tools.

Waitrose on Whitecross Street has a small selection of indoor plants (inside along with a selection of cut flowers) and plants and accessories available outside.

Local garden centres

The following centres are easily accessible on foot or by public transport

Columbia Road Flower Market

Take a stroll on a Sunday morning to London’s finest flower market on Columbia Road. Officially open from 8am to 2pm (although many stalls are still selling plants and flowers until at least 3:30pm. You can often pick up a bargain on stock they don’t want to transport back if you’re there late.

It’s about a 30 minute walk or you can take the 55 or 243 bus from Old Street. Get off at Hackney Road / Columbia Road bus stop if you’re on the 55, or at Hoxton Station / Museum of the Home bus stop if you’re on the 243).

The Boma Garden Centre

The Boma Garden Centre is a family-owned garden centre in Kentish Town offering a diverse range of house and garden plants, plus gardening tools and accessories. It has an excellent website and app - worth downloading to receive their vouchers and rewards. This is probably our most accessible garden centre - just a 3 minute walk from Kentish Town station on the Northern line. The tube from Moorgate takes about 15 minutes; you can take the 46 or 214 bus to stops relatively close by or, if you want a bit more exercise, it takes about an hour and 15 minutes to walk from the Barbican.

Camden Garden Centre

Camden Garden Centre is a well-stocked award-winning garden centre selling an excellent range of indoor and outdoor plants, plus gardening tools, accessories and furniture. It has a nice cafe upstairs. This also has a loyalty card scheme. The tube to Camden Town takes 11-15 minutes followed by a 12 minute walk; buses 46 and 214 take about 40 minutes or it’s a 20 minute drive if you have a car (they have a free car park for customers). It takes just over an hour on foot, much of which is a pleasant walk along Regent’s Canal.

N1 Garden Centre

Boutique garden centre on Englefield Road in Hackney. Not the cheapest but good quality and worth a visit for both indoor and outdoor plants.

It takes about 35-45 minutes to walk or take either the number 141 or 76 bus from Moorgate.

The Flower Warehouse & The Plant Warehouse

The Flower Warehouse on Cambridge Heath Road is excellent for houseplants although it does sell a limited range of outdoor plants. It also has a particularly good range of modestly priced indoor and outdoor pots and planters out at the back.

The Plant Warehouse is located on the opposite side of the street and has a more boutique vibe exclusively selling house plants.

Garden centres further afield

Clifton Nurseries

A beautiful tranquil garden centre in Maida Vale, retailing an extensive range of outdoor and indoor plants, stylish garden accessories and gifts. Includes a charming café in a picturesque glasshouse and a range of unique and decorative spaces surrounded by plants for weddings, private parties and business meetings.

5A Clifton Villas, London, W9 2PH (Warwick Avenue tube station)

Crews Hill Nurseries & Enfield Garden Centre

Not local but the train takes only 34 minutes. Take the mainline train from Moorgate towards Hertford North and alight at Crews Hill. Go down slope to Cattlegate Road and turn left. There are several garden centres along both sides of Cattlegate Road, and if you turn right into Theobald's Park Road there are even more! Several nurseries have cafés, and there is also a pub.

Cattlegate Road, Enfield, EN2

New Covent Garden Flower Market

Monday – Saturday 4am-10am.

A fun outing and a good range of plants (and cut flowers) at good prices, plus a cafe.

B&Q

Leyton: 1 Leyton Mills, Marshall Road, Leyton, London, E10 5NH Tel: 020 8988 1010
Central line from Liverpool Street or St Paul’s to Leyton

Peckham: 524 Old Kent Road, London SE1 5BA Tel: 020 7252 0657
Bus 21 from Moorgate towards Lewisham, alight at Malt Street (approx 40 mins)

Homebase

O2 centre, 255 Finchley Rd, London NW3 6LU (Finchley Road tube station) Tel: 03456 407589

From Moorgate or Barbican station take the Metropolitan line to Finchley Road tube station. Homebase is at the back of the car park behind the O2 Centre in Finchley Road, a few yards left from the tube station. The range of plants is basic but sundries are plentiful and good value.