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Larkfield is a hillside residential district of upper Greenock, occupying the lower slopes of the Renfrewshire Heights above the town centre and the former industrial waterfront. The area developed rapidly through the mid-twentieth century as large council and private housing estates were built on the rising ground south of the old town, and it now forms a continuous residential belt between the older Victorian town and the moorland plateau above. The Larkfield Industrial Estate on the lower edge of the district was once a major electronics employment site, and the landscape of Larkfield carries the characteristic mixture of amenity grassland, garden trees and rough-grass banks typical of mid-century urban expansion. White clover on the amenity areas and verges is the dominant summer forage; sycamore lines the older streets and fills the garden boundaries; bramble and gorse establish quickly on the rough ground at the moorland transition above.

Sycamore is the dominant May flow tree throughout Inverclyde, lining the Victorian and Edwardian streets of Greenock and Port Glasgow and covering the steeper hillsides above the town in semi-natural woodland. White clover on the amenity grasslands, parks and road verges of the coastal towns is the main mid-summer crop from June through August. Hawthorn on the hedgerows of the agricultural land between Kilmacolm and Inverkip provides a strong May blossom flow. The Renfrewshire Heights above Greenock and Inverkip carry extensive heather moorland from mid-July through September — one of the most accessible upland heather grounds from the Glasgow conurbation, and a traditional destination for beekeepers moving colonies in late July. Himalayan balsam is establishing on the Kip Water and Gryfe corridors. Bramble on old quarry and railway embankment sites around Greenock provides a useful late-summer supplement. Gorse and broom on the hillside rough grazing above the coastal towns provides a sustained spring flow from April. Ivy on the older stone buildings and Victorian tenements closes the calendar in October.