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Troon is a golfing resort town on the Firth of Clyde, home to Royal Troon Golf Club and the famous Open Championship links. The town occupies a peninsula between the South Bay and Troon Harbour, and the links grassland carries white clover and bird's-foot trefoil through midsummer. The Portland Hills shelter the town from the north-east, and the residential streets of the older town have generous villa gardens with mature sycamore, lime and elder. The harbour area and the Marine Hotel grounds carry ornamental planting close to the water, and the Ballast Bank local nature reserve provides gorse and coastal scrub.

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.