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Saltburn-by-the-Sea is a Victorian cliff-top resort town with a pier, water-powered funicular cliff lift and the deeply wooded Saltburn Valley Gardens below. The Valley Gardens' mature horse chestnuts, limes and ornamental planting give a sheltered and productive June flow; sea-buckthorn and coastal meadow wildflowers on Huntcliff and Saltburn Sands provide a late-summer supplement; and the Cleveland Hills heather rises immediately behind the town above Skelton Beck and Brotton.

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.