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Newborough (Niwbwrch) is a village on the south-west corner of Anglesey, at the entrance to Newborough Warren National Nature Reserve — a vast dune system and Corsican pine forest extending to Llanddwyn Island. The dune slack grassland supports one of Wales's finest assemblages of wild thyme, kidney vetch, pyramidal orchid and sea holly, providing a distinctive coastal limestone forage supplement through July and August. The village is surrounded by reclaimed saltmarsh and mixed farmland; the Cefni Estuary intertidal flats and the Malltraeth Pool are nearby. Oilseed rape on the Newborough and Dwyran plateau opens the season; hawthorn hedges and white clover on dairy pasture carry summer; the dune slacks, wild thyme and gorse on the warren edge provide an excellent late-season forage that local beekeepers value highly.

Oilseed rape on the Anglesey plateau — grown widely between Llangefni, Gwalchmai and Llanerchymedd — gives a generous early May crop. Hawthorn on deep double-hedges follows through the agricultural lanes; white clover persists on the dairy pastures through summer. Gorse dominates the west-coast clifftops and coastal heath of Holy Island and the Lligwy headland from March onward; heather and bilberry add a late-August supplement on Mynydd Llwydiarth and the higher Mynydd Parys plateau. Coastal dune slacks at Newborough Warren and Aberffraw carry wild thyme, kidney vetch and bird's-foot trefoil — distinctive forage found in few other Welsh regions. Sea lavender on the Malltraeth Estuary and Cefni margins adds seasoning; bramble is universal on scrub, hedgerow and forest edge; ivy on old stone farmhouses and coastal cottages closes the year.