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Sully is a quiet coastal village east of Barry with a distinct limestone clifftop character — Sully Island, accessible on foot at low tide, sits just off the shore, and the cliff paths on either side provide bramble, thrift, and bird's-foot trefoil in good quantities. The older part of the village has generous walled and hedged gardens; the newer housing on the plateau above has the mature garden plantings typical of 1970s–1990s estates. The Cardiff, Vale and Valleys BKA serves the area and collectors reach the village quickly from the Barry and Penarth ends of the Vale.

Blackthorn and cherry plum open the year in the old orchards and thickset hedgerows around Cowbridge and Llantwit Major — some of the most intact ancient-enclosure hedge networks remaining in Wales. Hawthorn follows through the early Vale fields. White clover still dominates the traditionally managed meadows between Rhoose and St Athan, and oilseed rape is grown sporadically on the lighter soils. The June highlight is lime — Barry, Penarth, and Cowbridge all have fine street limes and park limes — followed by a long bramble flow along the Heritage Coast cliff paths. Sycamore is useful on the sheltered coastal slope; sea buckthorn, thrift, and bird's-foot trefoil supplement on the cliff grassland. Ivy on limestone walls and old farmsteads closes a long, gentle season.