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Clevedon is a refined Victorian seaside town on the Severn Estuary, its pier, Salthouse Fields and the wooded Poet's Walk above the marine lake giving it a distinctive literary and horticultural character. The clifftop gardens along the Marine Parade, the lime trees of Old Church Road and Hill Road, and the orchard gardens of the older residential streets above the seafront carry a productive June flow; hawthorn is dense on Strawberry Hill and the Tickenham Ridge above the town, and bramble covers the wooded hillsides of the Gordano Valley to the east.

Oilseed rape is grown extensively on the North Somerset Levels plain between Weston, Yatton and Congresbury, producing a strong April to May flow that fills supers quickly and requires timely extraction. Hawthorn is dense on the Mendip foothills hedgerows around Churchill, Winscombe and Banwell, and the Tickenham Ridge and Kewstoke Hill carry blackthorn and gorse for the earliest spring forage. Lime trees line the Victorian esplanade gardens of Weston-super-Mare and the older residential streets of Clevedon and Portishead, giving a reliable June town-centre flow. The orchard gardens of Long Ashton, Backwell and Nailsea carry traditional apple, pear and plum blossom in May. Bramble is prolific on the Mendip scarp scrub and on the regenerating scrub of old rhyne banks; white clover on the improved moor grassland and rhyne margins carries through July. Sea-buckthorn and coastal grassland at Sand Bay, Weston Sands and Clevedon Marine Lake provide a late-summer coastal supplement. Ivy on old limestone walls and the cliff-face gardens at Clevedon and Portishead closes the forage year in October.