Blackpool is the famous seaside resort on the Fylde coast, with the Tower, the illuminations and the flat Fylde plain stretching inland. The Lancashire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the sea-buckthorn and sea-holly coastal grassland of Lytham St Annes, the mixed arable and dairy farmland of the Fylde, the Ribble estuary saltmarsh at Southport and the old allotment and garden fringe of the resort town — gives local bees a distinctive coastal and Fylde-plain season.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the older garden remnants and hedgerow oaks of the North Shore and South Shore conservation areas, on the coastal dune grassland and sea-buckthorn margins of Lytham St Annes, along the Fylde drain-side willowherb and reed-bed margins, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Victorian seafront and boarding-house properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
FY6 7ST· approx. 5 km
Visit websitePR1 8AP· approx. 23 km
Visit websiteL37 7BS· approx. 27 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Spring opens on sycamore and hawthorn in the Ribble Valley hedges; oilseed rape is present but secondary. Lime fills June in Preston, Lancaster, Blackburn and Burnley. The Forest of Bowland and the Pennine fringe produce bell and ling heather from late July to early September — a classic Lancashire heather flow, thick and commercially migrated to. Bramble is dense; rosebay willowherb flushes Blackburn and Burnley former-mill brownfield. Ivy on stone-built villages and coastal bungalows closes the year.
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