Perth is the historic gateway city of the Scottish Highlands, set on the River Tay where the river broadens into its lower reach after leaving the Perthshire glens. The North Inch and South Inch parklands, flanking the city on the Tay riverbanks, carry lime, horse chestnut and sycamore giving a strong June–July flow; the Tay willows and alder run the length of the city. Branklyn Garden, maintained by the National Trust for Scotland, has one of the finest private garden collections in Scotland. The Carse of Gowrie farmland to the east is oilseed rape and soft-fruit country; Perthshire BKA has its largest membership in and around the city.
Collectors attend swarms in the North Inch and South Inch parkland lime trees, along the Tay riverbank willows from the Branklyn garden margins to Friarton, in the Branklyn Garden and the Norie-Miller Walk riverside borders, and in the stone garden walls and chimney stacks of the older Kinnoull Hill and Craigie residential streets.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
CA6 4HN· approx. 164 km
Visit websiteNE65 9QH· approx. 165 km
Visit websiteNE46 3NB· approx. 179 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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