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Iron Acton is a historic village in the lower Frome Valley between Yate and Frampton Cotterell, its fourteenth-century village cross, the Church of St James the Less and the Acton Court manor house setting it apart as one of South Gloucestershire's most complete medieval villages. The Frome Valley farmland around the village carries hawthorn and blackthorn hedgerows on the old field boundaries; the Acton Court grounds and the Ladden Brook river corridor carry willows and sycamore; and oilseed rape on the valley-floor fields opens the season in late April.

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.