St Leonards is defined by two things: the Royal North Shore health precinct and a dense cluster of office towers and new residential high-rise around the station. Very few Sydney suburbs concentrate so much hospital, office and apartment demand into so few blocks. That gives a St Leonards florist an unusually technical job. Getting flowers […]

Kirribilli is small, steep, dense and spectacular. It occupies the point directly opposite the Opera House, is stacked with Art Deco apartment blocks and heritage terraces, and hosts more proposals per square metre than anywhere in Australia. That combination gives a Kirribilli florist a very particular order book: apartment-scale gifting, proposal and anniversary flowers, heritage-building

Milsons Point is a small, dense, dramatic pocket of Sydney sitting directly beneath the northern end of the Harbour Bridge. It has Luna Park, the Olympic Pool, a train station, a ferry wharf, a cluster of office buildings and a great many apartments with a view most of the world only sees in photographs. A

Crows Nest has the busiest, best-used village high street on the lower North Shore. Willoughby Road runs a long strip of independent restaurants, cafes, bars and retail, the surrounding blocks are dense with apartments and terraces, and the whole thing sits between the St Leonards health precinct and the North Sydney office towers. That makes