You guys! Nature is healing! No really, nature is making this better again as Chiswick Flower market reopens on Sunday 2 May where there will be traders selling cut flowers, bedding plants, bulbs for spring planting, houseplants, dried flowers, bouquets and arrangements. A dream for those of us who picked up some gardening skills this past year during lockdown.
It’s no secret that high street retailers and market traders have struggled during the pandemic, and so many of them have had to stay closed for most of the year. When the west London open air market started in September 2020, the first new flower market in London for 150 years(!), it attracted 7,500 visitors. Chiswick Flower Market are hoping the reopening will be no different.
The market includes very well-respected nursery owners such as Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants. The multi gold award winners at the Chelsea Flower Show are retiring from Chelsea this year because it has been moved to September, so they will be selling their home-produced herbaceous perennials at Chiswick Flower Market instead.
Other traders who will be at the market include Columbia Rd traders Steve Burridge, Jill Perkins, Steve Hudson and London House Plants. West London growers include The Kew Plantsman, specialising in rare and unusual plants. Many of the plants on sale will have come from British growers, grown peat free at nurseries in the south east of England.
In the mix will be stalls selling Micro foods; Aubrey’s Strawberries, herbs grown in from Pepperpot nursery and children’s planting kits from Herboo.
Alongside the gorgeous array of cut flowers and live plants there will also be stalls selling plants pots and accessories. Visitors are being encouraged not to use plastic bags and so Chiswick Flower Market are selling a branded jute bag to carry your new plants home in or if you live locally they can take advantage of their free delivery by bike. How cute!
Chiswick Flower Market is back on Sunday 2 May, 9.30 am – 3.00 pm in Old Market Place, Chiswick High Rd, W4 2DR (outside George IV pub; nearest tube Turnham Green on the District line).
From May Chiswick Flower Market is expected to take place on the first Sunday of every month throughout the year.
Hello You
I’m Rosie!
