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Norton St Philip is a historic Somerset village six miles south of Bath, best known for the George Inn — one of England's finest surviving medieval inns, built to house wool-fair merchants in the fourteenth century. The village sits on gently rolling limestone country between the former coalfield to the north and the Frome valley orchards to the east, giving bees forage from orchard blossom and hawthorn hedgerows in spring through clover-rich grazing meadows into late summer.

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.