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Rhuddlan is a small historic town on the River Clwyd between Rhyl and St Asaph, dominated by the concentric-plan castle built by Edward I in the late thirteenth century. The riverside setting means the town is flanked by water meadows carrying meadowsweet, purple loosestrife, comfrey and white clover. The castle grounds hold dense ivy on the masonry and elder scrub in the moat margins; mature sycamores stand along the main street and in the churchyard. The farmland east and west of town is open Vale of Clwyd arable and pasture with hawthorn-bounded field margins. Sea buckthorn grows on the dune margins at Foryd on the estuary a short distance downstream, providing a late-summer pollen supplement.

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.