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Clachan of Campsie is a historic hamlet at the mouth of Campsie Glen, sheltered under the southern escarpment of the Campsie Fells in East Dunbartonshire. The Glazert Water runs through the village and the glen above carries a dramatic gorge of rowan, birch and oak scrub — among the most productive spring forage habitats in the area. The old kirkyard and the surrounding hedgerow fields of hawthorn and elder provide May forage; heather on the Campsie plateau immediately above the hamlet is accessible within a short walk, making this one of the closest points in the Glasgow fringe to productive moorland ground.

Sycamore is the dominant May flow tree throughout East Dunbartonshire, lining the suburban streets, school grounds and railway corridors of Bearsden, Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch in large numbers. White clover on the amenity grasslands, golf courses and roadside verges of the residential areas is the main mid-summer crop from June through August. Hawthorn on the hedgerows of the Glazert and Blane valleys and on the field boundaries of the agricultural land between Torrance and Lennoxtown provides a sustained May blossom flow. The Campsie Fells above Lennoxtown carry bell heather and cross-leaved heath from late July through September — the most significant upland heather resource within reach of the Glasgow conurbation. Himalayan balsam is colonising the Kelvin and Glazert corridors strongly. Bramble on field margins and in urban green space edges provides a late-summer supplement from July into September. Lime trees in the older residential avenues of Bearsden and Milngavie give a distinctive late-June to early-July nectar flow. Ivy on stone walls and older buildings completes the calendar in October.