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Woughton on the Green is one of the original villages preserved within the Milton Keynes urban area, its thatched cottages, sixteenth-century church of St Mary the Virgin and The Swan pub on the village green giving a traditional English village character enclosed by the city's grid roads and Ouzel Valley linear park. The Ouzel Valley Park riverside scrub and the open meadow between Woughton and Simpson carry hawthorn, bramble and willow; the village green trees and the churchyard limes carry a reliable June bloom; and the Grand Union Canal passes just to the south at Fenny Stratford.

Oilseed rape is grown extensively on the agricultural plain around Castlethorpe, Hanslope and the fields north of Wolverton, opening the main flow in late April; the Great Ouse floodplain meadows carry white clover and riverside wildflowers through June and July. The linear parks of the new city — Ouzel Valley Park, Loughton Valley, Linford Wood and Campbell Park — carry lime trees, hawthorn and bramble through a long urban season. Lime trees were planted extensively on the boulevards and parkway margins of the new city in the 1970s and 1980s and now carry a strong June urban flow across the grid squares; hawthorn and blackthorn are thick on the original field hedgerows surviving within the linear parks. Woburn Sands and Aspley Heath, straddling the Bedfordshire border, carry heather and gorse on acidic sandy soils — an unusual local forage note for a lowland Midlands city. Bramble is prolific on the Redway scrub and former railway embankments; ivy on the stone walls of the old villages closes the year.