Royal Leamington Spa is a Regency spa town on the Leam in central Warwickshire, with elegant garden squares, the Jephson Gardens and the Avon corridor to the south. The Warwickshire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the Leam riverside willows and watermeadows, the old walled gardens of the Pump Room and Jephson Gardens, the parkland limes of Newbold Comyn and the hedged farmland of the Fosse Way fringe — gives Leamington bees a varied mixed-season in the heart of England.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the lime trees and old garden squares of the Newbold Terrace and Clarendon Square conservation areas, along the Leam riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Newbold Comyn, in the old walled garden and parkland remnants of the Jephson Gardens fringe, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Regency and Victorian spa-town properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
CV32 4AA· approx. 1 km
Visit websiteCV3 4AQ· approx. 12 km
Visit websiteCV37 6QW· approx. 16 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Early flows come from blackthorn and cherry in the Arden hedgerows and oilseed rape on the lighter soils around Southam and Shipston. Hawthorn is abundant; sycamore and field maple fill the middle of May. Lime and sweet chestnut in the parkland around Warwick, Kenilworth and Stratford produce a strong June flow. Bramble and rosebay willowherb support July, and a solid ivy flow along the ironstone villages closes a long season.
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