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Hunstanton is a Victorian seaside resort on the Wash coast in west Norfolk, unique in England for its west-facing chalk and carstone cliffs that give it remarkable sunsets over the sea. The West Norfolk and King's Lynn BKA covers the area, and the surrounding landscape — the chalk and sea-lavender saltmarsh of the Wash National Nature Reserve at Holme and Thornham, the gorse and bramble of the Hunstanton Cliffs nature reserve, the mixed farmland and old hedgerow oaks of the Snettisham and Heacham hinterland, the oilseed rape fields of the north Norfolk clay vale between Hunstanton and Docking — gives local bees a coastal and agricultural season notable for the lavender cultivation around Heacham and Snettisham, a commercial crop that attracts bees from miles around in late July and August.

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.