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Marske-by-the-Sea is a coastal village between Redcar and Saltburn, its long sandy beach, Victorian residential streets and the dune and cliff grassland of the Durham Heritage Coast giving it a distinctive character. The coastal dune scrub carries sea buckthorn — whose flowers are an early nectar source — along with bramble and coastal wildflowers. St Germain's church and the mature gardens of the older seafront properties carry the June lime and sycamore flow, and the Cleveland Hills heather is reachable from the elevated clifftop lanes above the village.

Oilseed rape on the flat arable plain between the Tees and the Cleveland escarpment produces a heavy April to May flow, particularly around Stokesley, Stillington and the fields east of Yarm. Hawthorn and blackthorn are thick in the suburban hedgerows of Stockton, Billingham and Guisborough. Lime trees line the Victorian residential streets of Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Redcar and carry a reliable June flow. The defining feature of the landscape is the extent of ex-industrial grassland: former ICI works at Billingham and Wilton, steelworks sites at Redcar, and colliery reclamation ground throughout are dense with bramble, rosebay willowherb and white clover from June through August. Sea buckthorn and coastal meadow wildflowers on the North Tees marshes, Coatham Sands and Huntcliff provide a distinctive supplement near the shore. The Cleveland Hills rise sharply south of Guisborough, Skelton and Loftus and carry ling heather and bilberry from late July into September — within easy reach of apiaries on the urban fringe.