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Borehamwood is a substantial south Hertfordshire town on the boundary of the London greenbelt, best known nationally as the home of Elstree Studios — one of Britain's most famous film and television production centres. The town's postwar residential development sits within a greenbelt landscape of clay woodland, managed parkland and farm hedgerows that provide considerably more forage than many urban centres of its size. Aldenham Country Park to the north, with its reservoir and broadleaf woodland, offers lime, horse chestnut and willow; the clay farmland carries hawthorn-lined field boundaries; bramble is heavy on the park and woodland margins. Garden ivy on the substantial semi-detached properties of the older streets closes the season.

The chalk uplands of the north — around Baldock, Royston and Letchworth — give oilseed rape, sainfoin and a solid hawthorn flow. The southern clay country leans on sycamore, horse chestnut and field maple, with the limes of Hertford, Harpenden and St Albans producing a classic June crop. Ashridge, Tring Park and the Chilterns edge add beech forage. Bramble on the commons and rosebay willowherb along the Lee Valley corridor carry midsummer. Ivy closes a long, productive year.