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Southway is an estate suburb in north Plymouth at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park access area, the moor visible from the higher streets and Roborough Down rising immediately beyond the city boundary. The moorland edge approach carries gorse, heather and bracken scrub; hawthorn hedgerows on the Bickleigh Down farming lanes give a strong late-April flow on the open plateau above the city. The suburb's position between moorland and city makes it one of Plymouth's most varied swarming landscapes.

Gorse on the Dartmoor edge at Roborough Down and the Plympton Hill fringe opens the season in February and March. Blackthorn and hawthorn on the Plym and Tamar valley hedgerows follow; apple blossom in the Plympton and Tamerton Foliot orchard remnants adds to the May flow. Sycamore and lime in Central Park, the Hoe gardens and Devonport Park give a reliable June city flow. Bramble is dense on the old military estate scrub at the Efford and Plymstock fringes; willowherb on the estuary embankments carries through August. The Tamar and Tavy creek-side woodland at Warleigh carries ash, hazel and wild cherry. Coastal ivy on the Sound-facing cliff gardens and the dockyard walls closes the year.