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Kincorth is a large post-war housing estate on the hill south of the River Dee, commanding wide views across Aberdeen and the tidal estuary towards the Deeside Walkway. Kincorth Hill Local Nature Reserve — rough grassland and gorse above the estate — is one of the few remaining semi-natural open spaces within the southern city boundary, and the gorse here supports a sustained April and May flow. The steep banks and scrub margins of Nigg Bay and the lower Dee estuary carry elder, bramble and sea buckthorn, while the garden streets of the estate contain many mature hawthorn hedges that bees work intensively in late April.

The lime avenues of the West End and Union Terrace Gardens provide a classic early-summer urban flow; sycamore is ubiquitous on the granite street margins and parks from late April. Victoria Park, Duthie Park and Seaton Park carry white clover and ornamental nectar through June and July. The River Dee corridor between Cults and Peterculter runs through mixed broadleaf woodland, hawthorn and wild cherry, extending the spring flow. Rosebay willowherb and bramble are abundant on the post-industrial margins and railway cuttings, giving a mid-summer nectar boost. The Don valley through Woodside and Bridge of Don adds alder, willow and meadowsweet on the water margins. Ivy on the granite walls of the older suburbs sustains the season into October.