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Broughty Ferry is a Victorian seaside suburb on the Tay estuary, three miles east of Dundee city centre, with a sandy beach, a fifteenth-century castle on a rock at the waterfront, and streets of prosperous Victorian and Edwardian villas behind. The broad gardens of the Monifieth Road and Camphill Road belt carry mature limes, sycamore, horse chestnut and apple trees that make Broughty Ferry one of the most productive suburban bee habitats in the city. The Tay foreshore, the Links park and the dune edge carry white clover and bird's-foot trefoil through summer; the hedged lanes behind the esplanade have established populations of bramble and elder that extend the season into September.

Sycamore opens the Dundee season in May, particularly strong in the mature trees of Balgay Hill, the West End villas and Camperdown Country Park on the city's western fringe. Lime follows in June and July in the formal avenues of Baxter Park and Caird Park — the defining mid-summer flow for city apiaries. White clover is abundant on the amenity grasslands and golf course rough of Caird Park and Downfield from June onward. Himalayan balsam on the Tay riverbanks and the full length of the Dighty Burn corridor — running from the eastern suburbs through Downfield and Whitfield — provides a lengthy and productive late-summer flow through July and August. Bramble is prolific on former industrial land and railway margins across the northern and eastern suburbs. Ivy on tenement and churchyard walls closes the season in September and October.