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Lochee is a historic district two miles west of Dundee city centre, built around the jute mills that once made it one of Scotland's largest textile communities. Cox's Stack — the ornate Italianate chimney of the former Camperdown Works — still anchors the skyline. Balgay Hill, immediately to the south, is an ancient cemetery park with dense mature woodland including some of Dundee's finest lime and sycamore stands, which provide a productive June and July flow. The community gardens and allotments that have replaced former mill land across the district give bees a patchwork of flowering crops and herbs through the summer months.

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.