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Bournemouth is a Victorian seaside resort on Poole Bay, its sweeping sandy beach backed by a network of wooded chines cutting down through pine-clad cliffs to the shore. The town gardens running along the Bourne valley — Upper, Lower and Central Gardens — carry mature lime, London plane and flowering cherry that provide a long urban summer nectar flow. Meyrick Park and the coastal pine woodland of the eastern chines add further foraging across a mild and sheltered maritime climate. The resort hotel eaves and roof cavities of Westbourne and Bournemouth East are among the most productive cavity sites in the BCP area.

The season opens on gorse at Turbary Common and Canford Heath from February; blackthorn in the chine hedgerows follows. Lime in Bournemouth's public gardens — the Central, Upper and Lower Gardens along the Bourne chine — delivers a fine late-June flow. The Hengistbury Head headland and Stanpit Marsh carry sea-lavender, sea-aster and coastal scrub into August. Bramble is dense in the chines and on the heath edges. Bell heather and ling on Canford Heath and Turbary Common give a late-July to September supplement that few coastal UA areas in southern England can match. Coastal ivy on cliff-face gardens and older bungalow walls closes the year.