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Chipping Sodbury is a medieval market town at the eastern edge of the Cotswolds, its wide triangular market place lined with Cotswold stone buildings and the church of St John the Baptist dominating the ridge above the Frome Valley. The Cotswold limestone hedgerows of Sodbury Common and the Dodington valley east of the town carry dense hawthorn and field maple; sycamore lines the market place and the older residential streets; and the Frome Valley farmland to the north carries oilseed rape in spring and white clover through June.

Oilseed rape on the Severn Vale farmland between Thornbury, Oldbury-on-Severn and the M5 corridor gives a strong April to May flow; the flat fields around Olveston and Aust carry it particularly heavily. Hawthorn and blackthorn are dense on the Cotswold edge hedgerows above Wickwar, Rangeworthy and Iron Acton, and the Frome valley farmland east of Yate carries a reliable hawthorn flow in late April. Lime trees line the older streets of Kingswood, Staple Hill and Mangotsfield and carry a June town-centre flow. The Filton Airfield and BAE Systems perimeter scrub carries extensive bramble and rosebay willowherb, and the Frampton Cotterell and Coalpit Heath old colliery reclamation ground is dense with bramble through July and August. Sycamore is abundant along field margins and roadside hedgerows throughout the Cotswold edge; white clover on the improved grasslands of the Severn Vale closes the main flow from June to August. Ivy on the Cotswold limestone walls and the older suburban garden walls closes the year in October.