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Felling is a former colliery and chemical-manufacturing town on the south bank of the Tyne directly across from Walker, now absorbed into the borough of Gateshead and regenerating around its community open spaces and riverside frontage. The Felling Shore, where the Tyne floods the old industrial terraces at high tide, and the former Heworth Colliery land behind Bill Quay form a belt of post-industrial brownfield with dense rosebay willowherb, buddleia, elder and bramble — classic urban forage that carries colonies well into August. The residential streets of High Felling and Windy Nook have mature sycamore and horse chestnut, and Felling's proximity to Saltwell Park adds lime avenues and the park's Victorian arboretum to the local forage map.

Spring opens on sycamore and horse chestnut in Jesmond Dene, Leazes Park and Saltwell Park. The lime avenues of the Georgian terraces of Newcastle and the Victorian parks of Sunderland lead the June flow. Bramble and rosebay willowherb are heavy on former pit-head and industrial land. The coastal denes — Marsden, Whitburn, Castle Eden — contribute sea-buckthorn and coastal meadow forage; ivy on old stone streets and garden walls closes the year.