Columbia Road Flower Market

Columbia Road on a Sunday is all stem buckets and shouted prices, with florists packing the street edge-to-edge. The market is mostly about flowers and plants—cut bunches, houseplants, seasonal pots—though the surrounding shops add extras like ceramics, prints and small home bits. It’s busiest late morning, when the street becomes a slow shuffle, so it helps to treat it as a walk-through rather than a place to linger. Come for a quick bunch, stay for the atmosphere, then peel off into the side streets when it gets dense.