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Lanark is the historic county town of Lanarkshire, set above the Clyde gorge at the point where the river drops through a series of waterfalls at New Lanark World Heritage Site. The gorge woodlands below Lanark are among the most spectacular in Scotland — ancient oak and ash with a dense understorey of hawthorn, elder and bramble — and New Lanark's mill lade carries willows and alders through its restored industrial landscape. The town itself sits on the plateau above, surrounded by mixed arable and dairy farmland; sycamore lines the road margins and hedgerows, and white clover covers the hay fields of the Clydesdale plain through June and July. The upper ground above Lanark toward Nemphlar carries gorse and broom scrub.

Sycamore is the dominant May flow tree throughout South Lanarkshire, heaviest on road margins, estate policies and river gorge woodlands. The Carluke orchard belt adds cherry and apple blossom in April, earlier than most of Scotland. Hawthorn and blackthorn on the Clydesdale field hedgerows extend the spring flow through late April and May. White clover is the main mid-summer crop on the improved grasslands of the Clyde and Avon valleys, peaking in June and July. Himalayan balsam is heavy along the Clyde between Cambuslang and Lanark from July to September. The upper ground above Strathaven, Lanark and Biggar carries heather and bilberry from late July on the Southern Uplands fringe, giving migratory beekeepers access to an upland crop. Bramble is prolific on former colliery and quarry sites across the region; ivy closes the foraging year on estate walls and stone houses in October.