Bishopston is a residential suburb north of the city centre, known for its independent high street along Gloucester Road and the wide leafy avenues of Edwardian housing that spread towards Horfield and Ashley Down. The long garden plots behind the Victorian and Edwardian terraces, the mature horse chestnut and lime along Kellaway Avenue and Sommerville Road, and the green corridor of the Muller Road allotments give local bees a dependable urban forage through the main May-to-July season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the lime and horse chestnut of Kellaway Avenue and Sommerville Road, in the allotment hedges and fruit trees of the Muller Road and Horfield allotments, in the mature garden sycamore and cherry of the Gloucester Road terrace backs, and in the chimney pots and roof eaves of the Edwardian terraces of Ash Road and Dunmore Street.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
BS1 4QS· approx. 3 km
Visit websiteBS32 4PG· approx. 12 km
Visit websitebs313ep· approx. 12 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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