Clent is a village and hill area at the southern edge of the Black Country, with the Clent Hills owned by the National Trust offering ridge-top heather, bilberry and gorse alongside the grazed valley farmland below. Hawthorn scrub covers the upper hillsides; sycamore, elder and bramble fill the woodland edges; and the village gardens run to mature fruit trees — an unusually diverse forage range within a few kilometres.
The gorse and hawthorn scrub of the Clent Hills is a natural swarming habitat; collectors also attend swarms in garden trees along Adams Hill and the village centre, in the hedgerow elderflower of the lanes towards Walton Pool, and in the outbuildings and hollow trees of the surrounding farms.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
DY9 7PU· approx. 5 km
Visit websiteDY10 4PY· approx. 8 km
Visit websiteDY11 6TL· approx. 12 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The Vale of Evesham opens the year with apple, pear, plum and the last surviving commercial asparagus flowers. Oilseed rape fills the middle fields; hawthorn and sycamore line the lanes. Lime dominates the June streetscape of Worcester, Malvern and Kidderminster. The Malvern Hills bring limestone grassland herbs and a small late-summer heather supplement on the upper slopes; bramble is universal. The tail of the year still carries some traditional hop-garden forage around Bromsgrove, and ivy on the old black-and-white villages closes the season.
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