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Spring Bank is a Victorian inner suburb stretching west from the city centre along Spring Bank and Princes Avenue, its character defined by the famous Avenues — the network of lime-lined residential streets including Marlborough, Westbourne, Victoria and Park Avenues laid out in the 1870s and 1880s. The Avenues lime street trees produce one of Hull's finest urban lime flows in June, drawing bees from a wide area and making this one of the most active swarming neighbourhoods in the city. Pearson Park with its ornamental lake and mature lime and chestnut canopy lies immediately adjacent on the north side.

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.