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Diss is a market town in south Norfolk on the River Waveney, which forms the historic county boundary between Norfolk and Suffolk, with a notable Mere — a natural lake of 6 acres — at its centre. The Norfolk BKA covers the area, and the surrounding landscape — the Waveney riverside willows, alder carr and wet meadow between Diss and Scole, the ancient oak and ash woodland at Wortham Ling and Redgrave Fen on the Suffolk border, the mixed arable farmland of the south Norfolk and north Suffolk boulder clay plateau with its oilseed rape and field beans, the dense hawthorn and elder hedgerows of the old enclosures around Roydon and Palgrave, and the bramble margins of the old railway formation and riverside green corridors — gives local bees a productive agricultural and waterside season.

Spring is carried on oilseed rape — vast sheets of it — across the light Brecks soils and the heavy clays of central Norfolk. Lime and sweet chestnut provide an important June flow in the parkland of the Holkham, Sandringham and Blickling estates. Bramble is ubiquitous; heather on the Brecks sandy heaths adds a distinctive late crop. The Broads themselves bring long flows from purple loosestrife, hemp agrimony and balsam along the staithes, and the coastal sea-buckthorn at Holme and Holkham is a known autumn supplement before the ivy.