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Whitfield is a large post-war housing estate in the north-east of Dundee, set on gently rising ground above the Dighty Burn valley. The estate was built from the 1960s onward to rehouse families from inner-city clearances and remains a predominantly residential district with significant green space between its housing blocks. The Dighty Burn corridor — a long greenway running west from Crombie Country Park — passes directly through the southern part of the estate, carrying himalayan balsam, meadowsweet, elder and bramble that give a strong and varied late-summer flow. Amenity grassland throughout the estate carries white clover from June; the hawthorn and ornamental plantings of the green corridors provide early blossom.

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.