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Bransholme is a large 1960s and 1970s residential estate in the north of Hull, extending across the flat Holderness plain approach toward Wawne and the River Hull valley. The Sutton Fields industrial area and the Bransholme Sustainable Urban Drainage wetland ponds at the estate edge carry willowherb and bramble scrub across their margins. Oilseed rape is grown on the arable fields north of the estate boundary, giving a strong April flow on the flat plain within easy flight of the housing.

Oilseed rape on the flat Holderness clay plain east and north of the city — visible from Bilton, Bransholme and Longhill — opens the season in April and dominates through early May. Hawthorn and sycamore on the Holderness field-boundary hedgerows follow; within the city, the Avenues — Marlborough, Westbourne, Salisbury and Victoria Avenues — carry one of the finest lime-tree canopies of any English city, producing a dense and fragrant June flow that draws bees from the surrounding streets and parks. Bramble and willowherb flush former industrial land, railway embankments and the Bransholme green-space corridors through summer. The Humber riverside elder and hawthorn scrub at Victoria Dock and the Pier approach adds a late-summer supplement. Ivy on the Old Town walls, churchyards and garden boundaries closes the year.