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Beaumaris (Biwmares) is a medieval walled town on the flat Anglesey shore directly across the Menai Strait from Bangor, dominated by Edward I's concentric castle — arguably the most technically accomplished of the Welsh castles. The town's Georgian and Victorian building stock, the castle moat gardens and the seafront promenade sustain mature garden forage; the limestone plateau hinterland behind supports hawthorn-hedged dairy pasture, oilseed rape and white clover. The sheltered, south-facing aspect of the Strait gives Beaumaris a slightly longer season than exposed west-coast Anglesey; sycamore and lime are present in the town centre walks, and bramble covers the clifftop footpath north towards Penmon Priory and its medieval dovecote.

Oilseed rape on the Anglesey plateau — grown widely between Llangefni, Gwalchmai and Llanerchymedd — gives a generous early May crop. Hawthorn on deep double-hedges follows through the agricultural lanes; white clover persists on the dairy pastures through summer. Gorse dominates the west-coast clifftops and coastal heath of Holy Island and the Lligwy headland from March onward; heather and bilberry add a late-August supplement on Mynydd Llwydiarth and the higher Mynydd Parys plateau. Coastal dune slacks at Newborough Warren and Aberffraw carry wild thyme, kidney vetch and bird's-foot trefoil — distinctive forage found in few other Welsh regions. Sea lavender on the Malltraeth Estuary and Cefni margins adds seasoning; bramble is universal on scrub, hedgerow and forest edge; ivy on old stone farmhouses and coastal cottages closes the year.