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Garndiffaith is a hillside village in the upper Afon Lwyd valley, perched on the eastern slope between Abersychan and the moorland edge of the Blorenge at around 280 metres. The village is tucked into a south-facing terrace with views across the valley to the Coity Mountain, and its position on the valley side gives apiaries access to both the sheltered corridor of the Afon Lwyd below and the open moorland heather and gorse above. Sycamore on the valley sides and elder in the terraced garden margins provide the dominant May flow; bramble on the reclaimed ground between Garndiffaith and Varteg forms dense productive stands through July, and bilberry appears on the rough ground above the last houses toward the Blorenge summit.

Sycamore dominates the valley sides from Blaenavon to Cwmbran, providing a consistent May flow throughout the borough. Hawthorn on the valley-side hedges and blackthorn in the scrub edges gives a reliable April supplement. White clover is abundant on Pontypool Park and the numerous amenity green spaces of Cwmbran; the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal corridor through the valley brings meadowsweet, purple loosestrife and willowherb into easy reach. Bilberry and ling heather on the Blorenge mountain and the Blaenafon plateau provide a late-August supplement for colonies on the valley rim, and bramble is dense on the reclaimed tip margins and valley-side forest edges throughout the borough. Lime avenues in Pontypool Park flower reliably in July and represent the most distinctive forage source in the county.