Limavady is a market town set in the Roe Valley, between the Sperrins AONB to the south and the north Londonderry coast to the north. The Roe Valley Country Park preserves ancient gorge oak woodland along the river, with a rich understorey of hazel, wild garlic and bluebells in spring. The dramatic Binevenagh mountain escarpment rises to the west with open heather moorland. River Roe margins carry willows, alder and thick stands of himalayan balsam through summer into early autumn. Hawthorn and blackthorn hedges line the drumlin lanes around Aghanloo and Myroe. Gorse covers the coastal slopes toward Magilligan, flowering strongly from February.
Collectors attend swarms in the Roe Valley Country Park oak woodland and riverside willows, along the River Roe alder and himalayan balsam margins through the town, on the gorse-covered Binevenagh lower slopes and coastal farmland west toward Magilligan, and in the hawthorn hedgerows and garden trees of the older residential streets near the market square.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
BT26 6NH· approx. 92 km
CA24 3HZ· approx. 225 km
Visit websiteCA13 0AU· approx. 233 km
Association data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Coastal gorse on the north coast carries an early flow. Blackthorn, hawthorn and sycamore fill May. Lime dominates June in Derry, Coleraine and Limavady. The Sperrins contribute bell and ling heather from late July. The Roe and Bann valleys bring himalayan balsam into a strong late-summer flow; coastal sea-thrift and sea-aster at Magilligan add seasoning; ivy closes a long year on whitewashed cottage walls.
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