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Polmont is a residential village east of Falkirk, on the ridge south of the Union Canal, where the agricultural plain transitions from the industrial corridor of Grangemouth to the more pastoral farmland of the eastern Falkirk council area. The Union Canal runs immediately north of the village, its towpath carrying hawthorn, elder and a strong late-summer himalayan balsam flow. The farmland between Polmont and Grangemouth carries oilseed rape in April-May; the improved pastures to the south carry white clover through June and July. The Polmont Hills to the south, rising toward Manuel, carry gorse and broom scrub on the lower slopes. Sycamore on road margins and hedgerows is the dominant May flow source.

Oilseed rape on the Forth Carse between Larbert, Grangemouth and Airth provides the main April-May flow, one of the most productive in central Scotland. White clover on the improved Carse pastures and the amenity grasslands of the Falkirk and Larbert parks is the mid-summer backbone from June through July. Sycamore is the dominant early flow tree on road margins and hedgerows throughout the council area. The Forth and Clyde Canal and Union Canal towpaths carry himalayan balsam strongly from late July into September — one of the defining features of the Falkirk beekeeping calendar. Hawthorn on the Carron valley hedgerows and the canal embankments peaks in May; gorse and broom appear on the Kilsyth Hills fringe above Bonnybridge and on the Slamannan Plateau in the south. Heather on the Carron Valley moorland above Denny and on the Slamannan Plateau provides a modest late-season upland supplement. Ivy on older stone buildings closes the calendar in October.