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Dyserth is a limestone village on the eastern edge of the Clwydian Range, sheltered below the Graig Fawr escarpment between Rhyl and Rhuddlan. The village is noted for Dyserth Waterfall, where Afon Ffyddion drops over a limestone cliff into a wooded gorge; the gorge sides hold ash, elder, hawthorn and bramble in a sheltered microclimate that extends the colony season compared to the open coastal plain below. The limestone grassland on Graig Fawr carries wild thyme, restharrow and greater knapweed — a species-rich sward that provides a diverse summer forage above the village. White clover pastures and hawthorn field boundaries surround the village on the valley side, and the sycamore-lined lanes down to Rhuddlan provide a good May flow.

Sycamore provides the dominant May flow county-wide, heaviest along roadsides and in valley-side woodland. The Vale of Clwyd is prime agricultural land producing a strong white clover and field-bean flow through June and July; oil-seed rape on the river-plain fields gives an early April flow in good years. Hawthorn and blackthorn on the Clwydian Range provides the classic late-April blossom flow. The upland fringe above 300 metres carries heather and gorse on the Berwyn and Llantysilio mountains, giving apiaries at Corwen and Ruthin access to a July-to-September upland flow. Sea buckthorn on the Gronant and Foryd dunes provides pollen late into the season; ivy closes the calendar in October across the county.