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Orchard Park is a 1970s housing estate in north-west Hull, built across the site of former smallholdings and market gardens whose remnant orchards and elder trees survive in the estate's green corridors and open spaces. Orchard Park Community Woodland and the wider green-space network between housing blocks carry hawthorn and bramble scrub alongside the planted ornamental cherry of the estate streets. The proximity to open Holderness plain arable country to the north gives bees access to oilseed rape in early spring.

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.