Bee swarm in Meigle? Help is a minute away.

Meigle is a small village in the broad floor of Strathmore — the Great Valley between the Grampian foothills and the Sidlaw Hills — notable for its extraordinary collection of Class I and Class II Pictish carved stones, displayed in the schoolhouse museum. The surrounding Strathmore farmland is among the most productive arable land in Angus: oilseed rape on the flat valley floor from Forfar westward to Coupar Angus provides a strong April to May flow, and the improved grasslands carry white clover through June and July. Hawthorn is heavy on the field margins and estate hedgerows around Belmont Castle; the riverside vegetation of the Dean Water nearby adds willows and alder. The Sidlaw Hills rising south of the village carry heather moorland accessible in late July.

Oilseed rape is the defining Angus spring flow: the wide floor of Strathmore carries dense April–May sowings from Forfar eastward to Carnoustie, filling supers quickly on settled days. Hawthorn, wild cherry and sycamore follow on the hedgerow field margins and estate woodlands of the inland vale. White clover is abundant on the improved coastal grasslands and golf course turf between Monifieth, Carnoustie and Arbroath through June and July. The coastal clifftops carry bird's-foot trefoil, thrift and wild thyme. On the higher ground of the Angus Glens — above Kirriemuir, Edzell and Brechin — heather starts in late July and carries through to mid-September, offering a productive moor crop for those who move colonies to the hill.