Florist Shop Near Me by London Fields: Grace & Thorn's Hackney Studio

Grace & Thorn sells its flowers from Unit 1, 5 Mentmore Terrace, London E8 3PN, about 55 metres from London Fields Overground station, and the entrance is round the side on Fortescue Avenue, marked with G&T signs. A bunch of British-grown seasonal flowers starts at £45, the shop phone is 0207 739 1521, and Saturday hours end at 1pm. For anyone searching florist shop near me in Hackney, this is the studio whose dark, painterly bouquets made the name.

Nik Southern founded Grace & Thorn in 2011, and it is still independent and, as the shop puts it, female-founded. The house style is described on the about page as inspired by nature and the Dutch Masters: deep burgundies, coppers, trailing stems and the kind of slightly overblown heads you see in seventeenth-century still lifes. Press pages from Vogue, Time Out, Condé Nast Traveller, Harper's Bazaar and Tatler are listed on the site, and this autumn the homepage banner even points to a Grace & Thorn appearance on the Piccadilly Circus lights.

The studio calls itself a studio and shop, and the welcome on its find-us page is to visit for flowers, cards, gifts, homeware and a chat. That is a fair description of the size. This is a working room where bouquets for delivery are built, with a counter and shelves for gifts at the front, rather than a big showroom with aisles. Walk in and you will usually see florists at the bench behind the counter.

The one thing to plan around is the opening time, because the website gives two answers. The find-us page lists Monday to Wednesday 9am to 3pm, Thursday and Friday 9am to 4pm, and Saturday 9am to 1pm. The homepage footer says Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and Saturday 9am to 1pm. Both agree on a 9am start and a 1pm Saturday finish, so the safe window is the morning. A walk-in after 3pm on a Monday is the visit most likely to meet a locked door.

There is no Sunday trading and no Sunday delivery. If you want to collect an order rather than browse, click and collect works on orders placed by 2pm Monday to Friday, or by 10am on Saturday. That makes a Saturday morning plan simple: order before ten, then walk over from Broadway Market and pick it up before the studio shuts at one.

The seasonal British Grown Bouquet runs roughly from April to October and is the one to buy in autumn while home-grown dahlias and late roses are still around. It comes as a Bunch at £45, Small at £65, Medium at £85 and Large at £120. Burnished Blossom, the darker signature mix, is £70 as a Small and £180 as a Deluxe, and you can add the studio's signature pickle-jar vase for £10 more, which is the detail people photograph.

Big Thelma, a large statement bouquet, starts at £75. For regular deliveries there is a monthly subscription; three months of the Small size costs £181. An honest steer: the pickle-jar add-on is worth it for a gift that has to arrive looking finished, because the recipient does not have to hunt for a vase. For your own kitchen table it is £10 you can save, since the stems are cut and hand-tied to sit in any jar.

Timing matters more here than at most florists because of that April-to-October window. Visit in the last weeks of October and the British Grown Bouquet is still on the list, built from whatever the growers are cutting that week. From November the studio's darker mixed designs, Burnished Blossom and Big Thelma, carry the menu, and the look shifts towards heavier winter tones. If you specifically want home-grown stems, autumn is your last chance until spring.

Same-day London delivery is available when you order by 1pm Monday to Friday or by 10am on Saturday, and drivers deliver between 10am and 7pm. The London same-day charge runs from £10 to £18 depending on distance, and nationwide delivery is £16. Miss the cut-off and the order goes out the next delivery day, which after a Saturday means Monday. The studio does not do Sunday drops, so a Sunday birthday needs flowers sent on Saturday.

The Deluxe Christmas Wreath Workshop 2026 costs £150 per person and runs on 28 and 29 November and 5 December, with sessions at 2pm or 5:30pm lasting about two hours, with fizz. The studio does not refund bookings cancelled within 14 days of the session, so pick your date before you pay. These are the studio's busiest public events of the year; the late-November dates suit anyone who wants a wreath on the door for all of December.

London Fields Lido is about 440 metres from the studio, a 50-metre heated outdoor pool open every day from 6:30am to 9pm. In cold weather the steam rising off the water is part of the view. Broadway Market, about 530 metres away, trades on Saturday from 9am to 5pm and Sunday from 10am to 4pm, with food stalls, bakeries and bookshops along the street. The lido sits inside London Fields park itself, so the shortest route from the studio is to cross into the park and follow the paths past the playground, which is also the nicest way to carry a bouquet without dodging traffic.

Because the studio closes at 1pm on Saturday and the market runs until 5pm, the order matters: go to Grace & Thorn first, then carry your flowers through the market, or ask for delivery and walk the park hands-free. Hackney Central is about 720 metres away if you prefer that station. If the studio is shut when you arrive, Columbia Road, a short ride south, has florists open on Sunday mornings.

Address: Unit 1, 5 Mentmore Terrace, London E8 3PN; entrance on Fortescue Avenue. Phone: 0207 739 1521. Hours: the find-us page lists Monday to Wednesday 9am to 3pm, Thursday and Friday 9am to 4pm, Saturday 9am to 1pm; closed Sunday. Nearest station: London Fields Overground. Prices: British Grown Bouquet from £45, Burnished Blossom Small £70, pickle-jar vase £10, Big Thelma from £75, wreath workshop £150, nationwide delivery £16.