Milton of Campsie is a village on the Glazert Water at the foot of the Campsie Fells between Kirkintilloch and Lennoxtown, a quiet agricultural settlement in one of the most productive forage valleys in East Dunbartonshire. The Glazert corridor through the village carries hawthorn, alder and willow on the banks; the farmland south of the village carries improved pasture and some arable. The Campsie lower slopes are directly above the village, with gorse and heather at the moorland edge accessible within a short distance. The Glazert valley between Milton and Lennoxtown carries some of the most intact hedgerow network in the council area.
Collectors attend swarms on the Glazert Water bankside hawthorn and alder through the village, on the gorse patches of the lower Campsie slopes above Antermony and the Back Burn, in the garden trees and stone dykes of the older properties along Birdston Road and Kirkintilloch Road, and on the hawthorn and field-boundary scrub on the farmland between Milton and Lennoxtown.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
CA6 4HN· approx. 137 km
Visit websiteCA13 0AU· approx. 155 km
CA12 4NT· approx. 166 km
Association data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Sycamore is the dominant May flow tree throughout East Dunbartonshire, lining the suburban streets, school grounds and railway corridors of Bearsden, Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch in large numbers. White clover on the amenity grasslands, golf courses and roadside verges of the residential areas is the main mid-summer crop from June through August. Hawthorn on the hedgerows of the Glazert and Blane valleys and on the field boundaries of the agricultural land between Torrance and Lennoxtown provides a sustained May blossom flow. The Campsie Fells above Lennoxtown carry bell heather and cross-leaved heath from late July through September — the most significant upland heather resource within reach of the Glasgow conurbation. Himalayan balsam is colonising the Kelvin and Glazert corridors strongly. Bramble on field margins and in urban green space edges provides a late-summer supplement from July into September. Lime trees in the older residential avenues of Bearsden and Milngavie give a distinctive late-June to early-July nectar flow. Ivy on stone walls and older buildings completes the calendar in October.
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