Comrie is a small conservation village in Strathearn where the River Earn and Water of Ruchill join below the Highland Boundary Fault — the most seismically active spot in Britain, earning the village the nickname "the Shakey Toon". The Earn's willows and alder run through the village; the grounds of the Cultybraggan former POW camp (now a community-owned enterprise) add open grassland and meadow wildflowers. The hills directly north of the village — the Barvick and the Lang Craigs — carry heather and bilberry within easy range; hawthorn is thick in the estate hedgerows around Dunira and St Fillans. Sycamore and lime line the White Church and the village green.
Collectors attend swarms along the Earn and Ruchill Water willows through the village and below the Deil's Cauldron gorge, in the hawthorn and sycamore hedgerows on the estate lanes toward Dunira, in the stone cottage garden walls and eaves of the village centre and Monument Road, and on the heather and bilberry scrub of the hill slopes above Comrie.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
CA6 4HN· approx. 171 km
Visit websiteNE65 9QH· approx. 188 km
Visit websiteCA13 0AU· approx. 194 km
Association 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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