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New Ollerton and Ollerton are twin communities at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest, formerly centred on colliery work and now on a growing retail and service economy. The Maun Valley alongside carries hawthorn, blackthorn and meadowsweet in the damp margins; lime trees planted along the mining-era streets still produce a useful June flow; and heather on Birklands SSSI is within foraging range for stronger colonies.

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.