Florist Shop Near Me in Tufnell Park: Rebel Rebel on Junction Road

Rebel Rebel, the florist Mairead Curtin and Athena Duncan started in 2000, now sells its flowers from 175 Junction Road, London N19 5QA, a short walk from Tufnell Park station on the Northern line. The shop opens Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm, and its bouquets start at £60. If you typed florist shop near me anywhere between Archway and Kentish Town, this is the name that has spent a quarter of a century dressing London parties, weddings and kitchen tables.

Curtin and Duncan both left jobs in television to open Rebel Rebel, and the business has grown sideways rather than upwards: there is a flower farm in Norfolk that supplies the shop, and a sister company, Rebel Rebel Italia, that works in Tuscany. For years the London shop sat in Hackney; in spring 2026 the website still listed Unit 1, Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, E8. By late September the address on the site had changed to Junction Road, and the homepage now says simply that they have recently moved into their new shop in Tufnell Park.

That move matters if you are relying on an old map pin or a saved address. Some search snippets still carry the Andrews Road listing and even Sunday hours, but the shop page on rebelrebel.co.uk gives 175 Junction Road and Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, with no Sunday trading. The shop sits in Islington's Junction ward, on the stretch of Junction Road running up from Tufnell Park towards Archway.

The naming is the first thing regulars mention. Bouquets on the shop's online menu borrow song titles: Purple Rain, Come On Eileen, Mama Said, Our Lips Are Sealed and House of Fun, which is built from yellow mimosa, orange ranunculus, scabiosa 'scoop', waxflower and anemones. House of Fun comes in four sizes: Small at £60, Medium at £80, Large at £100 and a Queen Size at £150. Mama Said and Our Lips Are Sealed both start at £60.

The piece that people photograph, and the one the founders call their signature dish, is Flowers in a Handbag. A vintage 1950s or 1960s structured bag in the Kelly style is filled with seasonal flowers and sent out as the gift itself, so the recipient keeps the bag after the stems are finished. It costs £200, which makes it the most expensive regular item on the menu and the obvious choice for a birthday where an ordinary bunch would feel too small.

Inside, the shop is part florist and part small gift room. Stems arrive daily from New Covent Garden Market, from local growers and from the Norfolk farm, and the arrangements are made without floral foam using what the shop describes as seasonal, mainly British flowers. Alongside the buckets you will find La Montaña candles and Rebel Rebel's own scented candles at £35, hand-painted jugs from Pakistan, and T-shirts and tote bags printed with the line And Tremble Like a Flower.

The house style is loose and garden-led rather than tight and domed, with plenty of foliage, odd stems and colour clashes that work. If you walk in without an order, the team will make up something from whatever came in that morning, and a gift voucher, which starts at £25, is the fallback when you cannot decide. Regulars tend to be north London locals buying for a dinner that evening, plus event planners collecting orders they placed days earlier.

For delivery, the shop works Monday to Saturday and asks for orders by midday on the previous day. London delivery to the postcodes on its map costs £15. Do not expect a Sunday drop: there are no Sunday deliveries and the shop itself is closed that day.

Anyone who wants flowers arriving every week can sign up to the subscription the shop calls These Ain't No Letterbox Flowers, a dig at the flat boxed bunches that fit through a door. It starts at £50 a delivery. One honest note: if you want a cheap posy for under £20, this is the wrong shop. The smallest named bouquet is £60, and the value is in the design, the quantity of stems and the fact that it does not look like it came from a supermarket bucket.

Workshops now run at the Junction Road shop. For December 2026 the London workshop page lists Christmas wreath-making evenings on the 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 10th, each from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, with prosecco and mince pies on the table. The 2026 ticket price is not printed on the event page; the shop's 2025 sessions were listed at £85 for a hand-tied class and £110 for a bowl arrangement.

These evenings sell out because the room is small and the dates sit right before Christmas parties. If December weekday evenings do not work for you, a ready-made wreath from the shop is the alternative, or you can try another London florist's wreath class on a weekend. The workshop format suits groups of friends better than solo visitors; you work at a shared bench, and the staff walk round correcting wire tension and spacing.

Junction Road is a working high street of cafes, takeaways and convenience shops rather than a boutique strip, so the florist is a destination rather than part of a shopping crawl. The better walk is uphill. Head north past Archway station and up Highgate Hill, and Highgate Cemetery is roughly 1.2 kilometres from the shop. From 1 November the cemetery opens from 10am to 4pm, so an autumn visit fits neatly before or after picking up flowers.

If you would rather stay flat, Tufnell Park station is about 320 metres from the door and Archway about 660 metres. Upper Holloway on the Overground is roughly 680 metres away, which helps if you are coming from east London. Carrying a large bouquet on the Northern line at rush hour is unpleasant, so go after 10am or arrange the £15 delivery and walk up to the cemetery empty-handed.

Address: 175 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London N19 5QA. Hours: Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm; closed Sunday. Nearest stations: Tufnell Park, Archway and Upper Holloway. Prices: House of Fun from £60 for a Small up to £150 for Queen Size, Flowers in a Handbag £200, candles £35, gift vouchers from £25, London delivery £15. Order delivery by midday the day before; phone for same-day requests.