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Scone is the historic royal village two miles north of Perth on the River Tay, site of Scone Palace — one of Scotland's most important historic houses and home of the Stone of Destiny on which Scottish kings were crowned. The palace grounds and parkland contribute outstanding bee forage: the lime avenue approach, the formal garden borders, the walled garden and the established parkland oaks, chestnuts and horse chestnuts provide a sustained summer flow from late May through July. The River Tay's mature bankside willows and alder run south through the Scone Estate toward Perth; the surrounding Carse of Gowrie farmland carries oilseed rape in spring and white clover on the improved pastures through June. Raspberry farms on the lower Strathmore slopes to the north add an unusual early-June crop.

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.