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Naburn is a village on the River Ouse south of York, where the river widens and the flood meadows extend across the vale floor. The village marina, the old Naburn Lock and the wooded riverside path give bees in the village gardens access to willowherb, meadowsweet and water mint through summer. The surrounding flat pasture and arable land is still strongly hedgerow-farmed, with hawthorn and field maple dense on the old hedge-lines between Naburn and Bishopthorpe. The village is within York and District BKA range.

Oilseed rape on the Vale of York arable fields around Dunnington, Poppleton and Skelton opens the season from early April. Hawthorn is dense on the field-boundary hedgerows all around the city fringe. York city centre is defined by its lime flow in June — Museum Gardens, Dean's Park, the Knavesmire lime avenue and the Victorian residential streets of Bishopthorpe Road and Bootham all contribute. Bramble is prolific on the railway embankment and Strensall Common edges; willowherb and himalayan balsam follow on the Ouse riverside. Bell heather on Strensall Common gives a modest but genuine late-July supplement. Ivy on the City Walls, churchyard walls and older suburban gardens closes the year.