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West Kilbride is a craft village and coastal town on the Ayrshire coast between Largs and Ardrossan, known as Scotland's Craft Town with over thirty craft studios and galleries established in its traditional buildings. The town sits below the Kaim Hill above the Clyde plain with views across to Arran and the Cumbraes. The Kilbride Burn runs through the town centre; the Kaim Hill and the Law Hill behind the town carry extensive gorse, broom and heather, providing one of the most accessible coastal moorland fringes in North Ayrshire. The Seamill beach and coastal grassland to the south add white clover and bird's-foot trefoil; the enclosed farmland of the coastal strip has hawthorn hedgerows through spring.

Hawthorn is the spring anchor on the Garnock valley field boundaries and the coastal farmland strips from mid-May. White clover dominates the mid-summer flow on the improved pastures around Irvine, Kilwinning and the coastal plain; the Eglinton Country Park lime and sycamore woodland provide the main structured town forage from June through July. Himalayan balsam has colonised the Garnock Water, Annick Water and River Irvine corridors, producing a sustained late-summer flow from mid-July into September. Gorse and broom are prolific on the rough hillside ground above the coast towns; heather starts on the Renfrewshire hill fringe above Beith and Kilbirnie from mid-July. The coastal grassland carries bird's-foot trefoil and sea clover through the full summer months.