Carlton is a large suburb on the eastern edge of Nottingham in the Gedling borough, rising from the Trent flood-plain allotment fringe towards the ridge of Carlton Hill with views across the Trent valley towards Colwick and the Shelford farmland. The Carlton Hill recreation ground, the Gedling Country Park colliery-nature reserve — hawthorn scrub, wildflower grassland and young woodland on the old Gedling colliery site — and the mixed residential and countryside fringe of the Mapperley and Gedling Hills give local bees a productive season from spring sycamore and hawthorn through to bramble, field maple and autumn ivy.
Collectors in Carlton regularly attend swarms in the allotment hedgerows and old fruit trees of the Trent-side allotment fringe between Carlton and Colwick, in the mature garden sycamore and lime of the Carlton Hill and Porchester Road residential areas, in the hawthorn scrub and wildflower grassland of Gedling Country Park on the former colliery site, and in chimney stacks of the older Victorian and Edwardian terrace properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
NG15 9GA· approx. 14 km
Visit websiteDE55 7LX· approx. 28 km
Visit websiteNG318JS· approx. 28 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Oilseed rape dominates the spring flow on the light sandy soils between Newark and Retford. Sycamore and horse chestnut carry May; lime lights the streets of Nottingham, West Bridgford, Mansfield and Worksop. Sherwood Forest gives a strong sweet-chestnut and oak-honeydew contribution in June. Rosebay willowherb is exceptionally heavy on the ex-colliery spoil heaps — a genuinely distinctive Nottinghamshire flow — and bramble fills every disused rail corridor. Ivy on old cottage walls closes a productive year.
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