Aberfeldy is a market town in the heart of Breadalbane on the River Tay, where General Wade's bridge (1733) spans the Tay at the foot of the Birks of Aberfeldy — the native birch and oak woodland that inspired Robert Burns. The Birks carry rowan, bird cherry, bilberry and spring willow catkins; the Tay willows and alder give a riverside flow; and the Black Watch Monument garden and the town's lime and sycamore add urban forage. The surrounding glens — Glen Lyon to the west and Strathtay to the east — carry ling heather from late July across a vast hill expanse that is one of Perthshire's finest heather honey landscapes.
Collectors attend swarms in the Birks of Aberfeldy native woodland hawthorn and rowan margins, along the Tay willows below Wade's Bridge and upstream toward Weem, in the stone garden walls and eaves of the residential streets near the Black Watch Monument, and on the heather and gorse scrub of the lower Glen Lyon hillsides.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
CA6 4HN· approx. 195 km
Visit websiteNE65 9QH· approx. 202 km
Visit websiteNE46 3NB· approx. 214 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The lower Strath Earn and Strath Tay are productive rape and raspberry country in May and early June — and Tayside raspberry honey is a distinctive and widely admired flow. Sycamore is heavy on estate parkland; lime lines Perth and Crieff streets. The defining late-summer flow is ling heather across the Perthshire glens — Glen Shee, Glen Lyon, Rannoch and Atholl — with long-established commercial apiaries migrating in. Bilberry, rowan and hill herbs supplement; ivy on stone villages finishes the year.
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