Truro is the county city and only city of Cornwall, set at the head of the Truro River estuary where the Kenwyn and Allen rivers meet the tidal Fal. The Cornwall Beekeepers' Association is based in the county and the Truro area supports bees on a varied coastal and maritime landscape — the sheltered creek woodlands of the Fal estuary with their early sallow and blackthorn, the old walled gardens of the city, cliff-top gorse and sea campion, and the bramble-thick lanes of the Roseland peninsula.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the old garden and orchard remnants of the Lemon Street and Cathedral precinct conservation areas, along the creekside willows and alder carrs of the Truro River at Malpas and Calenick, on the scrub and coastal grassland margins of the Roseland and St Just-in-Roseland lanes, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Georgian and Victorian city-centre properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
TR1 2RF· approx. 0 km
Visit websiteTR2 4LG· approx. 8 km
Visit websitePL30 5AE· approx. 31 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The season opens with gorse on every headland, flowering intermittently most of the year but peaking in April. Blackthorn on the cob hedges lights up the byways; sycamore and hawthorn carry the early build; and the slow-growing pittosporum and myrtle in the sub-tropical gardens of the south coast provide unusual supplementary forage. Bramble is dominant through July, bell heather appears on Bodmin Moor and the Penwith commons in August, and the mild autumn leans on ivy and fuchsia hedging well into October.
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