Redland is a leafy Victorian suburb between Clifton and Horfield, with broad residential avenues lined by lime and cherry, generous walled gardens, and the nearby green corridors of Redland Court, Durdham Down and the Clifton Suspension Bridge gorge. The lime canopy here is outstanding for an urban area, and the long Victorian terraces with deep back gardens give bees a consistent June lime flow backed by bramble, wisteria and a strong late-summer ivy yield.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the mature lime and cherry trees of Redland Road and Grove Park, in the walled garden remnants and hawthorn hedges of the larger Redland Court properties, in the ivy-clad walls and sycamore of the Blackboy Hill and Whiteladies Road corridor, and in the chimney pots and eaves of the Edwardian and Victorian terraces of Coldharbour Road and Hampton Road.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
BS1 4QS· approx. 3 km
Visit websiteBS32 4PG· approx. 13 km
Visit websitebs313ep· approx. 13 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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