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Anlaby Cross is a western inner suburb of Hull between the city centre and the East Riding boundary at Anlaby and Willerby, its inter-war and post-war residential streets running out to the retail park on the edge of the open plain. The mature garden sycamore and ornamental cherry of the 1930s and 1950s housing give a solid early-summer suburban flow. Hawthorn hedgerows persist on the Cottingham Road approach fields that mark the transition from city to East Riding countryside.

Oilseed rape on the flat Holderness clay plain east and north of the city — visible from Bilton, Bransholme and Longhill — opens the season in April and dominates through early May. Hawthorn and sycamore on the Holderness field-boundary hedgerows follow; within the city, the Avenues — Marlborough, Westbourne, Salisbury and Victoria Avenues — carry one of the finest lime-tree canopies of any English city, producing a dense and fragrant June flow that draws bees from the surrounding streets and parks. Bramble and willowherb flush former industrial land, railway embankments and the Bransholme green-space corridors through summer. The Humber riverside elder and hawthorn scrub at Victoria Dock and the Pier approach adds a late-summer supplement. Ivy on the Old Town walls, churchyards and garden boundaries closes the year.