Castlecrag is unlike anywhere else in Sydney, and that is by design. Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin laid it out in the 1920s with sandstone-walled houses set into the landscape rather than on top of it, streets curving with the contours, ...
Florist Gladesville: Flowers for the Gateway to the Northern Suburbs
Gladesville sits where the lower North Shore, the Ryde district and the Parramatta River all meet. It has a long commercial strip along Victoria Road, a genuine mix of housing from Federation cottages to newer apartments, a big multicultural population, ...
Naremburn Florist: Flowers for the Lower North Shore’s Cottage Suburb
Naremburn is small, tight-knit and full of workers' cottages and semis on narrow streets, wedged between Willoughby, Crows Nest, Artarmon and the Gore Hill Freeway. It has a village pocket around Central Street, the Flat Rock Gully bushland at one edge, ...
Florist Wollstonecraft: Flowers for the Harbour’s Quietest Corner
Wollstonecraft is small, green and remarkably peaceful for somewhere three train stops from the city. It runs from the Shirley Road ridge down to Berry Island Reserve and Gore Cove, mixes solid interwar apartment blocks with Federation houses, and has mo ...
Artarmon Florist: Flowers for Sydney’s Most Underrated Suburb
Artarmon is two suburbs pretending to be one. East of the railway line it is quiet, leafy and residential: interwar bungalows, wide streets, deep gardens, established trees. West of the line it is one of the biggest lightindustrial and commercial precinc ...
Greenwich Florist: Flowers for the Quiet Peninsula
Greenwich is one of the lower North Shore's best-kept secrets: a small peninsula between the Lane Cove River and Gore Cove, full of Federation and interwar houses on steep leafy streets, with a ferry wharf at the bottom, a golf course at the edge and bus ...






