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Ingleby Barwick is one of the largest planned settlements in England, developed from the 1980s on former farmland south of Thornaby-on-Tees, with a carefully designed green infrastructure of parks, cycleways and retained hedgerow corridors. The settlement's extensive green spaces carry white clover, bramble and ornamental lime plantings, and the Tees-side farmland immediately to the south and west still grows oilseed rape. The neighbouring Cleveland Hills are visible from the higher parts of the settlement, and the heather moorland is within flight range for bees in well-placed garden apiaries.

Oilseed rape on the flat arable plain between the Tees and the Cleveland escarpment produces a heavy April to May flow, particularly around Stokesley, Stillington and the fields east of Yarm. Hawthorn and blackthorn are thick in the suburban hedgerows of Stockton, Billingham and Guisborough. Lime trees line the Victorian residential streets of Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Redcar and carry a reliable June flow. The defining feature of the landscape is the extent of ex-industrial grassland: former ICI works at Billingham and Wilton, steelworks sites at Redcar, and colliery reclamation ground throughout are dense with bramble, rosebay willowherb and white clover from June through August. Sea buckthorn and coastal meadow wildflowers on the North Tees marshes, Coatham Sands and Huntcliff provide a distinctive supplement near the shore. The Cleveland Hills rise sharply south of Guisborough, Skelton and Loftus and carry ling heather and bilberry from late July into September — within easy reach of apiaries on the urban fringe.