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Prestwick is a coastal town immediately north of Ayr, known for Glasgow Prestwick Airport, the Old Prestwick Golf Club — venue of the first Open Championship in 1860 — and a long sandy beach on the Firth of Clyde. The links grassland between the town and the sea carries white clover and bird's-foot trefoil through midsummer. The parks and residential streets of the town have established gardens with hawthorn, sycamore and elder, and gorse is plentiful on the rough ground between the golf courses. The town is within easy reach of the dairy pastures of the Ayr basin, which carry an abundant clover flow through June and July.

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.