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Yate is a large planned new town on the edge of the Cotswolds developed from the 1960s onwards, its Shopping Centre, Kennedy Way and the Kingsgate Park bordered by the Frome Valley Walkway and the rural Cotswold edge farmland above Wickwar and Rangeworthy. Hawthorn is thick on the Frome Valley hedgerows east of the town; the Cotswold edge above Wickwar Road carries dense blackthorn and field maple; and the managed parkland and greenway corridors of the new town give bees good urban forage through the summer.

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.