Bedminster is an inner suburb on the south bank of the Avon, historically a separate town with its own market and shopping high street, and now at the heart of south Bristol's independent and community food scene. The Bristol BKA covers the area, and the surrounding landscape — the allotment fringe of Parson Street and Novers Hill, the Malago riverside margins, the old market gardens and community orchard remnants of the BS3 area and the Victorian walled terraces — gives local bees a productive and varied inner-city season with access to some of Bristol's best community food-growing land.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older walled garden remnants and lime trees of the North Street and East Street conservation areas, along the Malago and Avon riverside willows and reed-bed margins at Windmill Hill and Coronation Road, in the allotment and orchard plots of Novers Hill and Victoria Park, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Victorian terrace properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
BS1 4QS· approx. 1 km
Visit websitebs313ep· approx. 11 km
Visit websiteBA2 9JA· approx. 14 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The early flow rides on blackthorn, cherry plum and hawthorn in Ashton Court and the Downs. The lime avenues of Clifton, Redland and central Bristol produce a classic urban June crop. Ashton Court oaks and sweet chestnut contribute; bramble blankets the Avon Gorge and the old rail corridors of the harbour. Rosebay willowherb and buddleia pick up the post-industrial brownfield; ivy on the high garden walls of Victorian terraces closes the year. Himalayan balsam along the Frome is a summer supplement.
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