Coupar Angus is a market town at the edge of the Carse of Gowrie, where the Perthshire lowlands meet the first ridges of the Grampian foothills — the centre of a soft-fruit and arable landscape that has supported bees commercially for well over a century. Raspberry and strawberry growing on the drumlin fields between Coupar Angus, Blairgowrie and Meigle is the dominant land use from April through August; oilseed rape on the Carse to the south gives a strong early spring flow. Hawthorn hedgerows are thick on the old field systems; lime and sycamore line the market town streets; and bramble covers the field margins where cultivation gives way to rough grassland.
Collectors attend swarms in the raspberry field margins and hawthorn hedgerows on the drumlin lanes north toward Blairgowrie, in the oilseed rape field boundaries on the Carse roads south toward Burrelton, along the Isla Water willows through the town, and in the stone garden walls and eaves of the older market town properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
NE65 9QH· approx. 171 km
Visit websiteCA6 4HN· approx. 179 km
Visit websiteNE46 3NB· approx. 189 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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