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Renfrew is the historic county town of Renfrewshire, a compact market burgh at the confluence of the Black Cart Water and the Clyde, six miles west of Glasgow city centre. The town retains a traditional high street character and is flanked to the north by the Clyde riverbank, which carries a productive corridor of willow, elder and himalayan balsam from spring through to late summer. King's Inch Park on the western edge provides open grassland, ornamental planting and riverside scrub. The Clyde frontage at Porterfield and the Meadowside Quay area bring bees close to the estuarine grassland and ruderal vegetation of the former shipyard land, rich in white clover, vetch and rosebay willowherb.

Hawthorn opens the Renfrewshire season in May on the lowland field boundaries between Paisley and the Clyde. White clover follows on the improved grasslands and golf course rough of the Clyde valley from June through July. Sycamore and lime are productive in the Paisley park belt, the Finlaystone and Milliken Park estate woodlands, and the West End villa gardens through June and July. Himalayan balsam is the defining late-summer flow: the Cart Water, Black Cart, Calder and Gryfe all carry dense stands from mid-July into September. Bramble is abundant on former industrial and railway land across the central towns. On the Gleniffer Braes and the Renfrewshire hills above Lochwinnoch, heather provides a late-summer supplement for those willing to move colonies to the moor.