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Sutton on Hull is a former village north of Hull that has been absorbed into the urban area while retaining St James's church, a village green setting and some older farmstead buildings that give it a distinct character from the surrounding 1960s and 1970s housing. The Sutton Fields business park has bramble and willowherb scrub on its margins; Ennerdale Playing Fields carry hawthorn and elder on their field boundary. The flat landscape and proximity to Holderness plain oilseed rape arable country give bees a strong spring flow.

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.