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Llandyrnog is a farming village in the heart of the Vale of Clwyd, on the broad and fertile floor of the river plain between Ruthin and Denbigh. The surrounding fields are among the best dairy and arable land in north Wales, with white clover on the improved grassland providing a strong June and July flow across a wide low-lying foraging area. The village church stands surrounded by mature sycamore and horse chestnut that flower prominently in May; hawthorn hedges on the vale-floor field boundaries fill the April blossom period. The Clwydian Range forms an unbroken eastern horizon, and apiaries on the vale floor at Llandyrnog can work a long, warm, sheltered season benefiting from the natural funnelling of warm air through the valley from the south. Field beans and oil-seed rape on the surrounding farmland contribute to the April and May flow in good years.

Sycamore provides the dominant May flow county-wide, heaviest along roadsides and in valley-side woodland. The Vale of Clwyd is prime agricultural land producing a strong white clover and field-bean flow through June and July; oil-seed rape on the river-plain fields gives an early April flow in good years. Hawthorn and blackthorn on the Clwydian Range provides the classic late-April blossom flow. The upland fringe above 300 metres carries heather and gorse on the Berwyn and Llantysilio mountains, giving apiaries at Corwen and Ruthin access to a July-to-September upland flow. Sea buckthorn on the Gronant and Foryd dunes provides pollen late into the season; ivy closes the calendar in October across the county.