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Lisburn is a city on the River Lagan at the southern approach to Belfast, historically the centre of Ireland's linen industry and today a commuter and retail city with a strong sense of its own civic identity. The city was granted city status in 2002 as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations and its cathedral quarter, Lagan Valley Regional Park, and the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum reflect both the industrial heritage and the ambition of a modern city. The Lagan Valley Regional Park runs along the River Lagan from Lisburn north to Belfast, providing one of the longest continuous riverside greenway and woodland corridors in the greater Belfast area; its bankside alder, willow, hawthorn and elder provide excellent forage from spring through autumn, and the mature parkland trees — lime, sycamore and oak — in the Lagan Valley park supplements the summer flow. The surrounding drumlin farmland carries hawthorn and whitethorn on its field boundaries in exceptional density; whin covers the drier glacial ridges between the drumlins through spring. Sycamore in the city parks and the Lagan Valley provides the May flow; lime on the cathedral and civic street plantings gives a June supplement. White clover on the improved drumlin farmland around the city is the main June and July source; ivy on the older stone and brick properties closes the year.

Blackthorn and whitethorn on deep field hedges open the year. Sycamore is the backbone of May; hawthorn follows hard. Lime lines Belfast and Ballymena streets. The Glens of Antrim contribute bell and ling heather on the high moors between Cushendall and Glenariff, a late summer crop still commercially worked. Bilberry in basalt scree hills, bramble in every sheltered townland, and a long ivy flow on white-rendered cottage walls close the year.