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Clarkston is a residential suburb east of Giffnock, occupying the ridge between the White Cart Water valley and the Earn Water, and is one of the most characterful of the East Renfrewshire commuter settlements. The town grew rapidly after the opening of the Clarkston tram terminus in the early twentieth century, and its residential streets carry large garden trees in well-established suburban plots. Linn Park, on the White Cart on the Glasgow boundary to the north, is a major public park with old woodland — sycamore, oak and lime — that provides a forage resource accessible to apiaries in both Clarkston and the southern Glasgow suburbs.

Sycamore and lime in the mature residential avenues and school grounds of Giffnock, Clarkston, Newton Mearns and Barrhead constitute the principal May flow and are among the most productive suburban sources in the Glasgow area. White clover on the golf courses, amenity grasslands and road verges of the built-up northern zone is the main mid-summer crop from June through August. Hawthorn on the hedgerows of the agricultural land between Eaglesham and the Fenwick Muir provides a sustained May blossom flow in the southern part of the council area. The Fenwick Muir and the moorland above Neilston carry heather from mid-July into September — accessible upland ground for those who wish to move colonies. Bramble on scrub margins and on the White Cart and Brock Burn bankside provides a reliable late-summer supplement. Himalayan balsam is establishing on the Cart tributaries near Clarkston and Busby. Ivy on older stone walls and church buildings closes the calendar in October.