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Portsoy is a historic Banffshire coastal village with one of the oldest harbour complexes on the Moray Firth coast, built in the late 17th century to export the distinctive local serpentine marble used in the Palace of Versailles. The village's two harbours and the Old Harbour building — now a pottery and heritage centre — attract visitors to one of the most characterful fishing settlements on the north-east coast. The surrounding Boyne valley runs south from the cliffs providing a sheltered wooded corridor of sycamore, hawthorn and blackthorn forage; the Boyne Viaduct above the estuary is a notable local landmark. The Moray Firth coast between Portsoy and Cullen carries cliff-top gorse from spring; the Banffshire farmland inland from the village carries strong oilseed rape and white clover flows through the first half of summer, with bramble on the hedgerow and burn margins into August.

Oilseed rape on the vast arable belt around Inverurie, Turriff and Ellon is the defining early flow — Scotland's single biggest rape region. Hawthorn and sycamore carry the post-rape period; lime lights Aberdeen's granite streets in June. The heather of Royal Deeside, the Ladder Hills and the Cabrach gives one of the finest and most commercially worked heather honey flows in Britain. Bilberry and hill forage add; a short but real ivy flow on the granite villages finishes the year.