Flowers for Charleston, SC

The Charleston skyline is still measured in church spires, and the flower map starts there — the walled gardens South of Broad, the pastel single houses of the French Quarter, King Street's shops and restaurants, the Battery looking out at the harbor. But the city long ago spilled off the peninsula, and today an order is as likely to cross a bridge as stay on it: West Ashley's neighborhoods off Savannah Highway, James Island toward Folly, North Charleston up the Neck, and the Mount Pleasant side of the Ravenel. That geography, not distance, is what shapes a same-day run here. A peninsula drop can be done in twenty minutes; a Mount Pleasant delivery on a Friday afternoon means beating the bridge. The medical district — MUSC and Roper clustered on the upper peninsula — keeps a constant stream of get-well and new-baby arrangements moving through the middle of it all.

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