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Downfield is a large residential suburb in the north of Dundee, merging into the open ground of Caird Park — 150 acres of parkland, golf course and walled garden on the city's northern edge. The park's mature deciduous woodland, formal plantings and extensive rough grassland give bees a long season from April through October. The Dighty Burn, which runs west from Crombie Country Park through Downfield and on through the eastern suburbs, carries a corridor of himalayan balsam, elder and bramble that produces a sustained late-summer flow. Suburban gardens throughout Downfield add apple, pear, hawthorn and white clover from May onward.

Sycamore opens the Dundee season in May, particularly strong in the mature trees of Balgay Hill, the West End villas and Camperdown Country Park on the city's western fringe. Lime follows in June and July in the formal avenues of Baxter Park and Caird Park — the defining mid-summer flow for city apiaries. White clover is abundant on the amenity grasslands and golf course rough of Caird Park and Downfield from June onward. Himalayan balsam on the Tay riverbanks and the full length of the Dighty Burn corridor — running from the eastern suburbs through Downfield and Whitfield — provides a lengthy and productive late-summer flow through July and August. Bramble is prolific on former industrial land and railway margins across the northern and eastern suburbs. Ivy on tenement and churchyard walls closes the season in September and October.