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Pontesbury is a large village and civil parish south-west of Shrewsbury in the Rea valley, where the Shropshire plain meets the eastern slopes of the Stiperstones and the Long Mountain. Shropshire Beekeepers Shrewsbury branch covers the village and the surrounding mixed farmland and hill-country. Hawthorn and blackthorn in the deep hedgerows of the Rea valley open the season strongly; oilseed rape is common on the arable margins towards Shrewsbury; lime in the village school grounds and sycamore in the estate gardens provide a June flow; bilberry and ling heather on the Stiperstones ridge above Habberley and Snailbeach supplement the season in late summer; and the ivy on the old stone church of St George and the farm boundary hedges closes the year.

Early sycamore and hawthorn open on the Severn Valley; oilseed rape is common on the North Shropshire plain. Lime at Shrewsbury, Ludlow and Oswestry gives a strong June flow. Bramble is dense; the mosses of Whixall, Fenn and Bettisfield contribute a patchy but distinctive late summer flow of bog rosemary and cross-leaved heath. The Long Mynd, Stiperstones and Clee Hills provide bilberry and late ling heather — still migrated to by Shropshire beekeepers in August. Ivy on the old red-brick farms and timber-framed cottages closes the year.