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Bonnybridge is a former industrial village between Falkirk and Denny, on the Forth and Clyde Canal where the waterway crosses the foot of the Kilsyth Hills. The canal here is a key forage artery — the towpath carries himalayan balsam from late July to September, and the bankside hawthorn and elder are well established throughout. The Bonny Water runs through the village on its way to the River Carron below; the rising ground north of the canal toward the Kilsyth Hills carries gorse and broom on the lower slopes. The agricultural fields south of the village carry white clover on improved pasture; sycamore on road margins provides the May flow.

Oilseed rape on the Forth Carse between Larbert, Grangemouth and Airth provides the main April-May flow, one of the most productive in central Scotland. White clover on the improved Carse pastures and the amenity grasslands of the Falkirk and Larbert parks is the mid-summer backbone from June through July. Sycamore is the dominant early flow tree on road margins and hedgerows throughout the council area. The Forth and Clyde Canal and Union Canal towpaths carry himalayan balsam strongly from late July into September — one of the defining features of the Falkirk beekeeping calendar. Hawthorn on the Carron valley hedgerows and the canal embankments peaks in May; gorse and broom appear on the Kilsyth Hills fringe above Bonnybridge and on the Slamannan Plateau in the south. Heather on the Carron Valley moorland above Denny and on the Slamannan Plateau provides a modest late-season upland supplement. Ivy on older stone buildings closes the calendar in October.