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The best shopping in London: the streets and quarters each known for one thing, and the stores big enough to be a day out. Filter by what you are after and by what you want to spend.
Thirty-eight acres of fruit, vegetables and flowers at Nine Elms, and the flower market is the one to come to.
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The biggest wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market in the country, moved out of Covent Garden in 1974 and rebuilt at Nine Elms. Thirty-eight acres, a billion pounds a year across three trading floors and a Food Exchange, and most of what London's restaurants and florists put out passes through it.
The flower market is the part worth a civilian's attention: four in the morning to ten, and it sells to anybody. Cut flowers, foliage, pot plants and every sundry a florist uses, by the bucket and the box rather than the stem, which is why people buying for a wedding come here. It is also just a good place to walk round at an hour when London has nothing else open. The fruit and vegetable market runs through the night, from ten at night to six, and expects you to know what you want and take a lot of it.
| Monday | 04:00 – 10:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 04:00 – 10:00 |
| Wednesday | 04:00 – 10:00 |
| Thursday | 04:00 – 10:00 |
| Friday | 04:00 – 10:00 |
| Saturday | 04:00 – 09:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |
Hours from the page that lists them, checked 22 September 2026.
Those are the flower market's hours, which are the ones most people want. Fruit and vegetables trade 22:00 to 06:00 on weeknights and midnight to 06:00 at the end of the week; the Food Exchange keeps daytime hours, 06:00 to 22:00. Everything is shut on Sundays.
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