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Glamis is a historic village in Strathmore dominated by Glamis Castle — childhood home of the late Queen Mother and birthplace of Princess Margaret — whose grounds include one of the finest designed landscapes in Angus. The castle parkland and walled garden carry lime, sycamore, horse chestnut and formal flower borders that provide exceptional spring and summer forage. The Glamis Den, a wooded glen to the south of the castle, holds mature ash, oak and wild cherry. The surrounding Strathmore farmland produces oilseed rape in spring and carries white clover on the improved grassland through June and July.

Oilseed rape is the defining Angus spring flow: the wide floor of Strathmore carries dense April–May sowings from Forfar eastward to Carnoustie, filling supers quickly on settled days. Hawthorn, wild cherry and sycamore follow on the hedgerow field margins and estate woodlands of the inland vale. White clover is abundant on the improved coastal grasslands and golf course turf between Monifieth, Carnoustie and Arbroath through June and July. The coastal clifftops carry bird's-foot trefoil, thrift and wild thyme. On the higher ground of the Angus Glens — above Kirriemuir, Edzell and Brechin — heather starts in late July and carries through to mid-September, offering a productive moor crop for those who move colonies to the hill.