Easter Monday Flower Market

Easter Monday is flower market day in Milan and the traditional start of the balcony gardening year.

The market is held in and around Piazza San Angelo, a small cobbled piazza in front of a church, and lasts all day, till about eight in the evening.

You can find everything from alpines to zinnias, with tomato plants and olive trees along the way, but the majority of the plants are the balcony "standards" - pelargoniums, petunias, begonias, impatiens ....

I go most years, along with the other two million inhabitants of Milan …

This year I was fairly restrained and bought only the two yellow surfinia which I went to find.

But that didn’t stop me browsing for an hour or so. And taking photos. Enjoy.