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Waterside is a small village on the Glazert Water southwest of Kirkintilloch, a remnant of the ironworks community that once worked the nearby pits. The Glazert corridor carries hawthorn, elder and alder on its banks, with himalayan balsam colonising the lower reaches from July through August. White clover on the surrounding improved pasture is the main mid-summer flow; sycamore on the old field hedgerows and lane margins drives the May forage as the village sits at the transition between the residential Kirkintilloch fringe and the open agricultural land of the Glazert valley.

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.