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Fintry is a residential estate in northern Dundee, built in the 1950s and 1960s on the plateau above the Dighty Burn valley, close to the city's Kingsway ring road. The Dighty Burn runs directly below the southern edge of the estate through a green corridor of hawthorn, elder and bramble, and the burn's Himalayan balsam growth — dense between Fintry and Kirkton — provides a productive late-summer forage strip from July into September. The rough grass and amenity planting of the estate parks and the field margins at the northern city boundary add white clover and willowherb through midsummer.

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.