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Ayr is the main town of South Ayrshire, a historic royal burgh on the Firth of Clyde with a sandy beach, a working harbour and the two-arched Auld Brig over the River Ayr — immortalised by Robert Burns. The town has been a Clyde resort since the Victorian era, and the long seafront carries ornamental planting and the parkland of the Low Green beside the racecourse. The Belleisle and Rozelle parks to the south of the town provide mature broadleaf woodland, formal garden terracing and walled garden areas. The River Ayr walkway through the town to Alloway carries willow, elder and white clover on the riverside meadows.

White clover is the dominant forage in South Ayrshire: the extensive dairy grasslands of the Ayr basin, the Girvan valley and the Carrick plain carry an abundant June and July flow that underpins the local honey crop. Hawthorn and sycamore bridge the post-spring gap on field margins, estate hedgerows and shelter belts. Gorse flowers in two flushes — April and again in late summer — on the coastal headlands, Carrick hillsides and the hill ground around Straiton. The Carrick hills above Maybole and Girvan carry heather moorland accessible to beekeepers who move colonies to the hill in late July. Bramble is plentiful in the coastal scrub and farm hedge-bottoms through August, and the River Ayr and River Doon corridors add willow and alder to the spring forage.