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Llansannan is a moorland-edge village in the upper Aled valley on the southern flank of the Mynydd Hiraethog plateau, one of the most distinctively upland settlements in Denbighshire. The village sits at around 200 metres in a shallow valley surrounded by sheepwalk, forestry and open moorland, with the Mynydd Hiraethog uplands rising above to the north and east. Ling heather and cross-leaved heath on the moorland above the village provide a reliable late-summer flow from late July; gorse is prolific on the lower moorland margins and gives a valuable early pollen source from late winter. In the valley bottom, sycamore and hawthorn on the field boundaries and lane sides provide the spring flow. The village is an important centre for the Welsh language community of the Aled valley and carries an intact stock of older stone and slate properties.

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.