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Murdishaw is one of the larger residential neighbourhoods of Runcorn New Town, built in the late 1960s and early 1970s to house families relocated from Liverpool and the older parts of Runcorn. The estate sits on the plateau above the original town, its long garden-fronted terraces and housing courts opening onto the footpath and cycleway network that links all the new-town neighbourhoods. The surrounding grass verges, ornamental planting, allotments and mature garden trees accumulated over fifty years of settlement give local bees a surprising range of suburban forage.

The Mersey Estuary saltmarsh at Hale and the Weaver Navigation corridor carry sea aster, sea lavender and coastal meadow wildflowers through July and August — an uncommon estuarine forage source for the area. Oilseed rape is grown on the clay farmland around Halebank, Farnworth and the eastern edges of both towns, providing an April flow. Hawthorn hedgerows are dense along the Mersey Valley paths between the two towns and in the Daresbury and Moore corridor to the east. White clover fills the rough grassland of the Halton Lea area and the open ground around the new-town estates. Bramble is prolific on the railway embankments, the brownfield margins of the former chemical works, and the Spike Island reserve. Lime trees line the older streets of Widnes and the Victorian quarter of Runcorn, while ivy on the sandstone bluff faces and older brickwork closes the season in October.