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Canford Heath is a large residential area on the northern edge of Poole, built across and around one of lowland England's most important heathland Sites of Special Scientific Interest. The Canford Heath SSSI immediately to the south and west carries ling, bell heather and gorse providing an unusual and generous late-summer bee forage from July through September that few inland urban areas in southern England can match. Lime in the residential streets of the Merley and Canford Heath estates and hawthorn on the heath-margin field hedges add to a long, productive season from late February gorse through to October ivy.

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.