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Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant is a village in the Tanat valley, on the boundary between Powys and Denbighshire, best known as the start of the road to Pistyll Rhaeadr — the tallest single-drop waterfall in Wales and England at 73 metres, plunging from the Berwyn plateau into a wooded gorge of rowan, birch and oak. The village itself was the home of Bishop William Morgan, who produced the first translation of the complete Bible into Welsh in 1588; the church of St Dogfan stands at the heart of the village. The Tanat valley between Llanrhaeadr and Llangynog carries a classic mid-Welsh forage sequence: hawthorn and blackthorn on the valley-side hedgerows give the May blossom flow; sycamore on the estate and village lane trees provides the main June source; white clover on the hay-meadow fields and improved pastures carries colonies through midsummer. The Berwyn Mountains above Pistyll Rhaeadr carry ling heather and bilberry from late July; the gorge woodland below the falls is dominated by rowan, birch and oak. Bramble fills the valley-side scrub on all ungrazed ground.

Spring comes late. Blackthorn and hawthorn carry the early season; sycamore is important on every farmstead. White clover in the hay meadows is still a meaningful flow. The dominant late-summer crop is ling heather across the Brecon Beacons, the Black Mountains and the Cambrian uplands — dark, set, much of it commercially worked. Bilberry and upland grassland herbs add supplements. Bramble fills the sheltered valleys. A modest ivy flow on stone-built villages closes a short year.