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Uphill is a village on the southern edge of Weston-super-Mare, where the limestone hill of Uphill Down rises from the beach and the River Axe approaches the sea. The ruined hilltop church of St Nicholas and the ancient yew in its churchyard stand above a slope of limestone grassland and scrub that gives bees early-season gorse and blackthorn, followed by bramble and coastal wildflowers through summer. The village marina and the Axe estuary wetlands add willowherb and reed canary grass to the forage palette in late summer.

Oilseed rape is grown extensively on the North Somerset Levels plain between Weston, Yatton and Congresbury, producing a strong April to May flow that fills supers quickly and requires timely extraction. Hawthorn is dense on the Mendip foothills hedgerows around Churchill, Winscombe and Banwell, and the Tickenham Ridge and Kewstoke Hill carry blackthorn and gorse for the earliest spring forage. Lime trees line the Victorian esplanade gardens of Weston-super-Mare and the older residential streets of Clevedon and Portishead, giving a reliable June town-centre flow. The orchard gardens of Long Ashton, Backwell and Nailsea carry traditional apple, pear and plum blossom in May. Bramble is prolific on the Mendip scarp scrub and on the regenerating scrub of old rhyne banks; white clover on the improved moor grassland and rhyne margins carries through July. Sea-buckthorn and coastal grassland at Sand Bay, Weston Sands and Clevedon Marine Lake provide a late-summer coastal supplement. Ivy on old limestone walls and the cliff-face gardens at Clevedon and Portishead closes the forage year in October.