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Florists in Southside Glasgow
The most design-led part of Glasgow floristry outside the West End, and the part that has changed fastest. Pollokshields and Strathbungo in particular are worth a dedicated trip.
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4 florists in Southside, ranked
No. 18.4Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Pollokshields · Southside
Floral Haven
A childhood ambition turned into the Southside's most design-led flower shop.
No. 28.1Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Govanhill · Southside
GRASS Creative Floristry
Award-winning, Interflora-connected, and more ambitious than its street suggests.
No. 38.0Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Strathbungo · Southside
Stalks & Stems of Glasgow
Part florist, part greengrocer, entirely committed to weddings.
No. 47.0Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Shawlands · Southside
Station Flowers
Cheap bunches in the doorway, better flowers inside. The classic two-tier shop.
Where Glasgow floristry has changed fastest
Twenty years ago this page would have been much shorter. The Southside now carries the most design-led floristry in the city outside the West End, and in Floral Haven arguably the single most design-led shop anywhere in it. Pollokshields, Strathbungo and Shawlands have the tenement density, the disposable income and the independent retail culture to support shops that take a view rather than take an order.
The mix is genuinely broad. Stalks & Stems runs an Interflora-connected wedding operation from a shop with a greengrocer's frontage; GRASS Creative Floristry does full venue decoration from Cathcart Road; Station Flowers still stacks cheap bunches in the Shawlands doorway. Three completely different businesses within two miles.
Getting around
The Cathcart Circle is the key: Queen's Park, Pollokshields East, Maxwell Park, Mount Florida and Pollokshaws East between them cover this whole page, and trains run frequently. Parking is residential and manageable outside peak hours. Considerably easier than the West End.