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Dailly is a village in the Girvan Water valley between Maybole and Girvan, at the heart of the Carrick agricultural plain. The village is surrounded by dairy farmland carrying white clover on the improved grasslands through June and July, and hawthorn hedgerows divide the fields on the valley floor. The Girvan Water below the village carries a riverside fringe of elder, alder and willow. Kilkerran estate to the north-east of the village has mature broadleaf woodland and parkland that provides sycamore, lime and horse chestnut forage in spring. The Carrick hills above Dailly carry heather moorland on the upper ground.

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.