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Bognor Regis is a coastal seaside town with a Regency core and a long post-war garden suburb stretching inland toward the Chichester plain. The mild seafront climate gives the town one of the earliest urban bee seasons in West Sussex, with gorse in flower most of the year.

The county is carried by a long, staggered honey flow. Spring opens on the blackthorn and hawthorn of the Downs, followed by field maple and sycamore on the Weald, and the sweet-chestnut coppice still worked around the Arun and Rother valleys. Early summer brings white clover on the grazed chalk, bramble in every hedgerow, and the heavy lime flow that lines the streets of Chichester, Arundel and Horsham. Late summer leans on rosebay willowherb, balsam along the Adur, and a strong ivy flow into October on sheltered south-facing lanes. It is a long season, and hives work hard.