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Montrose is a historic port town at the mouth of the South Esk river, set between the North Sea and the Montrose Basin — one of Scotland's finest tidal lagoons and a nationally important bird reserve managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust. The basin's surrounding saltmarsh carries sea aster, sea purslane and coastal meadow flora. The town's Georgian and Victorian streets include mature lime and sycamore, and the Mid Links park provides open grassland close to the town centre. Oilseed rape in the Montrose hinterland gives a strong spring flow, and the dunes at Montrose Sands carry marram, bird's-foot trefoil and sea holly.

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.