Bee swarm collection in Lincolnshire

Oilseed rape is the defining early Lincolnshire flow, enormous in scale across the Fens and Wolds. Field beans, hawthorn and blackthorn carry the hedgerows. Lime and sweet chestnut line the Georgian streets of Lincoln, Stamford and Boston. Bramble is universal, and rosebay willowherb flushes disused airfields and dismantled rail corridors. The Lincolnshire Wolds, though not high, carry sainfoin and chalk grassland herbs. Coastal buckthorn at Gibraltar Point and ivy in the Wolds villages finish a long year.

Lincolnshire Beekeepers' Association has branches in Lincoln, Boston, Grantham, Spalding and Stamford. Many Lincolnshire beekeepers run multiple outyards across the arable belt, and collectors are experienced with farm-building swarms, Fenland drove-road hedges and urban Lincoln chimney pots.