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Coalpit Heath is a former mining village on the plateau between Frampton Cotterell and Yate, its colliery heritage visible in the lines of former miners' cottages and the characteristic spoil-bank hollows now greened over to scrub and rough grassland. St Saviour's church and the older village core on Ram Hill Road retain a working-village character. The surrounding farmland hedgerows carry hawthorn and blackthorn in abundance; the disused colliery land supports dense bramble and rosebay willowherb; and the plateau oilseed rape fields give an early April flow.

Oilseed rape on the Severn Vale farmland between Thornbury, Oldbury-on-Severn and the M5 corridor gives a strong April to May flow; the flat fields around Olveston and Aust carry it particularly heavily. Hawthorn and blackthorn are dense on the Cotswold edge hedgerows above Wickwar, Rangeworthy and Iron Acton, and the Frome valley farmland east of Yate carries a reliable hawthorn flow in late April. Lime trees line the older streets of Kingswood, Staple Hill and Mangotsfield and carry a June town-centre flow. The Filton Airfield and BAE Systems perimeter scrub carries extensive bramble and rosebay willowherb, and the Frampton Cotterell and Coalpit Heath old colliery reclamation ground is dense with bramble through July and August. Sycamore is abundant along field margins and roadside hedgerows throughout the Cotswold edge; white clover on the improved grasslands of the Severn Vale closes the main flow from June to August. Ivy on the Cotswold limestone walls and the older suburban garden walls closes the year in October.