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Lliswerry is a residential and light-industrial area of southeast Newport, lying between the city centre and the open Gwent Levels beyond Llanwern. The Gwent BKA covers this area, and the location gives local bees access to a remarkable mix of habitats: Newport Wetlands RSPB reserve at Goldcliff, just to the south, provides a major late-summer flow of purple loosestrife, hemp agrimony and marsh thistle on the Levels; the reedbeds and ditches of the coastal wetlands carry meadowsweet and willowherb. The former Llanwern steelworks land, now being restored, supports extensive rosebay willowherb and buddleia; bramble is dense on the brownfield margins. Lime and sycamore in the residential streets carry June, and ivy on the older terrace walls closes the year.

The Gwent Levels carry a distinctive damp-meadow forage — purple loosestrife, hemp agrimony, meadowsweet — and white clover on the grazed marsh. Wentwood provides a classic ancient woodland flow of sycamore, field maple, lime and sweet chestnut. The city's Belle Vue Park and the banks of the Usk offer urban lime. Bramble is universal; rosebay willowherb flushes former industrial land. Coastal sea-lavender at Peterstone Wentlooge adds seasoning, and ivy on the old red-brick terraces closes the year.