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Elgin is the main town of Moray, a historic cathedral city on the River Lossie where the ruins of Elgin Cathedral — once the most magnificent in Scotland — stand in a riverside park. The cathedral precinct and Cooper Park carry mature lime, sycamore and horse chestnut that provide a sustained early-summer urban flow. The Lossie riverside walk between Elgin and Lossiemouth passes through elder, alder and bramble. The surrounding Laigh of Moray farmland carries dense oilseed rape from late April into May, producing one of the most productive spring flows in northern Scotland.

Oilseed rape on the coastal Laigh of Moray is the defining spring flow: dense sowings between Elgin, Forres and Fochabers flower from late April and can fill a super rapidly on warm days. White clover follows on the improved grassland and roadside verges of the coastal plain through June and July. Sycamore is the dominant woodland forage tree, supplemented by hawthorn on field margins and elder along burn and river corridors. The heather of the Speyside hills and the Dava Moor above Grantown provides a significant late-summer crop accessible from Forres, Keith and the inland villages. Raspberries are grown commercially in parts of the Spey valley, adding a nectar source less common elsewhere in Scotland.