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Hessle Road is the historic spine of Hull's western fishing community, running from the Anlaby Road junction through the close-knit terraces of the Boulevard and Hawthorn Avenue areas to the Humber waterfront at St Andrew's Dock. The mature lime trees on Boulevard and the sycamore in the older residential streets of the Dairycoates and Gipsyville fringes deliver a strong June city flow; hawthorn is dense on the West Park boundaries and the old dock-side embankment hedgerows. The Humber riverside elder and sea-buckthorn scrub at Hessle foreshore extends the season into September.

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.