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Patchway is a residential town on the northern fringes of Bristol adjacent to Filton and the former airfield, its post-war housing estates, the Patchway Trading Estate and the Rolls-Royce works perimeter bookended by the oilseed rape fields of the Severn Vale to the north and the North Bristol greenway network to the south. Hawthorn is thick on the Almondsbury and Patchway Brook hedgerows; lime trees line some of the older residential avenues; and the Patchway Brook corridor carries willow, alder and meadow wildflowers.

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.