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Chew Magna is a village at the northern end of Chew Valley Lake in the limestone hills south of Bristol, surrounded by apple orchards and hedgerow-rich slopes typical of the North Somerset and Mendip fringe. The lake shore carries willow and reed scrub providing early forage, while the wildflower-rich limestone grassland on the valley sides adds clover, bird's-foot trefoil and knapweed through summer. St Andrew's church is set within a fine churchyard of yew and elder, and the village lanes toward Bishop Sutton and Stowey hold some of the best remaining hedgerow orchards in the area.

The season opens on blackthorn and willow along the Avon riverside at Saltford and Keynsham, followed by hawthorn and apple blossom through the Chew valley orchards in May. Lime is the defining June flow in Bath — the plane trees of Great Pulteney Street, the lime avenues of Royal Victoria Park and the Prior Park landscape garden are particularly productive. Mendip-fringe limestone grasslands around Chew Magna, Bishop Sutton and Clutton carry wild thyme, knapweed and marjoram from June into July. Bramble is dense on the coal-measure slopes above Radstock, Midsomer Norton and Timsbury; willowherb and himalayan balsam flush the Avon towpath below Saltford and Keynsham through August. Ivy on Bath stone walls and village churchyards closes the year into October.