Evergreen & Outrageous

Thank god for Evergreen and Outrageous, it has saved me now on two separate occasions– my mother’s birthday and a fancy dress costume where I dressed as a panda and needed a bamboo cane. The shop is open quite late (around 7pm) and so is perfect for last minute flower dashes.
The two women who work there are very sweet and helpful and even at the end of the day when they don’t have too much stock left, they can always manage to put together a decent bouquet. It isn’t quite as smart as the flower shop towards the park end of Church Street, but it is a lot cheaper.

Forget flower markets, take a trip down to Evergreen and Outrageous and get lost in the forest like flower store. I guess it feels especially forest like at this time of year with the Christmas trees.
Located on Stoke Newington Church Street, it is a beautiful store with a large selection of plants and flowers. It definitely adds an appropriate green touch to an already lovely strip of shops. It is an ideal place to pick up something for the house or for a loved one.
I didn’t really mean what I said about flower markets, I actually love them. I just think that this shop has a great selection without the hustle and bustle. The staff are happy to offer advice on the plants or flowers that you purchase.

Most of the florists in and around Stokey have either a limp and limited supply, appeal more to the Turkish tastes or require you taking out a second mortgage for a single rose. Not so of Evergreen and Outrageous. Or so I found.
Having offered to pick up flowers for a friend’s birthday, and wanting to impress I was resigned to forking out. Until I walked passed Evergreen and Outrageous that is. Despite the weather turning from bad to worse, the front of the shop was open to the street with pails of luscious flowers spilling out. And affordable at that– spoiled for choice I eventually decided on two big bunches of dark red gladioli for a tenner. They were wrapped beautifully, arranged in a spiral by the girl who didn’t draw breath for a moment from her conversation with her friends sitting unseen behind the wall of flowers. We never made it to the friend’s birthday so got to enjoy the flowers ourselves, all of which opened and once open and splendid lasted for an unreal amount of time.

Evergreen and Outrageous is a great flower and plant shop. It fulfills my need for indoor greenery when all the plants in the garden are almost half dead. The bright blooms in here at remind me that the dark winter will not be an enemy to everything that lives.
The shop has a great collection of indoor plans and gorgeous tropical blooms. The front is incredibly colorful, and you can’t really walk by without missing the display.
The orchid or other flower plants make great presents for your loved ones — and won’t they love you back for this! Flowers buy affection more than any other present, so it truly is value for money. Really. And the display here is so well done, its a clincher for sure.

Nothing says, «I cheated on you/​forgot your birthday/don’t have time to construct your Ikea shelving unit» like flowers, so for guaranteed forgiveness, go to Evergreen and Outrageous for a beautiful tropical bloom, not the Texaco Garage for a bunch of wilted weeds.
This florist decorates its section of Church Street fantastically and has even inspired the kind of occasional random flower buying on my part that makes me suspect I am growing middle aged just through living in Stoke Newington and seeing all the old people. They’re just so pretty though (the flowers).
There is a wall of foliage and flower of almost every conceivable variety in this store, orchids overhang the till and lilies send out an aroma strong and delicious enough to rival the smells of Fresh and Wild soup coming from the other side of the road. the service is professional and friendly and they deliver, so if you really messed up, the flowers will get home before you do.