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Larkhall is a Clydesdale market town on the east bank of the River Avon, between Hamilton and Lanark, with a compact Victorian and Edwardian commercial centre and a broad agricultural hinterland on the fertile Clyde plain. The Avon Water to the west carries bankside willows, hawthorn and elder scrub, and the steep wooded gorge below Stonehouse Road provides sheltered forage in seasons of cold east winds. Sycamore is the dominant May flow tree throughout the town and on the lane hedgerows heading south toward Strathaven; white clover is strong on the improved grassland fields of the Avon valley floor through June and July. Bramble is prolific on the disused railway trackbeds and quarry margins around the town.

Sycamore is the dominant May flow tree throughout South Lanarkshire, heaviest on road margins, estate policies and river gorge woodlands. The Carluke orchard belt adds cherry and apple blossom in April, earlier than most of Scotland. Hawthorn and blackthorn on the Clydesdale field hedgerows extend the spring flow through late April and May. White clover is the main mid-summer crop on the improved grasslands of the Clyde and Avon valleys, peaking in June and July. Himalayan balsam is heavy along the Clyde between Cambuslang and Lanark from July to September. The upper ground above Strathaven, Lanark and Biggar carries heather and bilberry from late July on the Southern Uplands fringe, giving migratory beekeepers access to an upland crop. Bramble is prolific on former colliery and quarry sites across the region; ivy closes the foraging year on estate walls and stone houses in October.