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Wavendon is a village on the southeastern edge of Milton Keynes, its ironstone church of St Mary the Virgin and the ornamental gardens of Wavendon House giving a quiet counterpoint to the modern estates spreading west from Woburn Sands. The Brinklow Spinney and Salford Road hedgerows carry dense hawthorn and blackthorn; the Aspley Wood complex on the sandy ridge toward Woburn carries heather and gorse; and the Ousel Valley linear park threads through the southern edge of the village toward Fenny Stratford.

Oilseed rape is grown extensively on the agricultural plain around Castlethorpe, Hanslope and the fields north of Wolverton, opening the main flow in late April; the Great Ouse floodplain meadows carry white clover and riverside wildflowers through June and July. The linear parks of the new city — Ouzel Valley Park, Loughton Valley, Linford Wood and Campbell Park — carry lime trees, hawthorn and bramble through a long urban season. Lime trees were planted extensively on the boulevards and parkway margins of the new city in the 1970s and 1980s and now carry a strong June urban flow across the grid squares; hawthorn and blackthorn are thick on the original field hedgerows surviving within the linear parks. Woburn Sands and Aspley Heath, straddling the Bedfordshire border, carry heather and gorse on acidic sandy soils — an unusual local forage note for a lowland Midlands city. Bramble is prolific on the Redway scrub and former railway embankments; ivy on the stone walls of the old villages closes the year.