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Fulford is a village and southern suburb of York on the A19, framed by the River Ouse to the west and the open arable Vale to the east. The village retains a recognisable street plan around Main Street and Germany Beck, with mature garden trees, churchyard lime and field-margin hawthorn on the Heslington Road and Germany Beck fringes. Oilseed rape fields between Fulford and Naburn deliver an early April flow; the lime avenue through Fulford Road and the large gardens of the older village properties contribute a June city-edge flow that the bees in this southern corridor share with those working Heslington and Bishopthorpe.

Oilseed rape on the Vale of York arable fields around Dunnington, Poppleton and Skelton opens the season from early April. Hawthorn is dense on the field-boundary hedgerows all around the city fringe. York city centre is defined by its lime flow in June — Museum Gardens, Dean's Park, the Knavesmire lime avenue and the Victorian residential streets of Bishopthorpe Road and Bootham all contribute. Bramble is prolific on the railway embankment and Strensall Common edges; willowherb and himalayan balsam follow on the Ouse riverside. Bell heather on Strensall Common gives a modest but genuine late-July supplement. Ivy on the City Walls, churchyard walls and older suburban gardens closes the year.