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Florists in East End Glasgow
Dennistoun, Tollcross and Shettleston support more independent florists per mile than the guidebooks would ever guess. Largely because this is where a lot of the city's sympathy and hospital flowers are bought.
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6 florists in East End, ranked
No. 18.3Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Dennistoun · East End
Sprigs & Twigs
Family-run since 2003, minutes from two of Glasgow's biggest hospitals.
No. 27.6Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Dennistoun · East End
Florresters
Trades under the line 'no ordinary florist' and is at least half right.
No. 36.9Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. 
No. 46.8Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Shettleston · East End
Pinks of Glasgow
One of several florists on Shettleston Road, which is a fact worth pausing on.
No. 56.8Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Dennistoun · East End
Cherry Tree Florist
Off the main drag on Whitehill Street, which is rather the point.
No. 66.7Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop.
The flower trade nobody writes about
Here is the thing the round-ups miss: Dennistoun, Tollcross and Shettleston support a dense, busy, entirely unglamorous flower trade. Shettleston Road alone carries several independent florists along a mile and a half of high street. That density is not driven by fashion. It is driven by communities that buy flowers for births, deaths, anniversaries and Sundays, consistently, and buy them locally.
A large share of Glasgow's most emotionally loaded flower-buying runs through this part of the city, because Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the Princess Royal Maternity sit right here. Sprigs & Twigs has been handling exactly that trade on Alexandra Parade since 2003, and shops in that position either develop real tact or they do not last.
Value, and the Duke Street anomaly
Prices are the lowest of any part of the city with this many good florists in it. The value curve here genuinely rewards ordering a size up. Duke Street is worth noting on its own: Florresters and Flower Fusion trade a few hundred yards apart and take opposite views of what a florist is for, which tells you how much flower this street buys. Duke Street, Bellgrove, Alexandra Parade and Shettleston stations serve the whole page.