Pershore is a small market town on the Avon in the heart of the Vale of Evesham orchard belt, famous for its Pershore Plum and surrounded by the most intensively planted fruit district in England. The South Worcestershire BKA covers the town, and the surrounding landscape — the plum, apple, pear and damson orchards of the vale, the river-meadow willows and meadowsweet of the Avon, the old walled gardens of Pershore Abbey and the market-garden smallholdings of the Wyre Piddle and Pinvin fringe — gives local bees one of the finest orchard forage seasons in the country.
Collectors regularly attend swarms in the lime trees and old walled gardens of the Bridge Street and High Street conservation areas, in the plum and apple orchards of the Tiddesley Wood and Pinvin lanes, along the Avon riverside willows and watermeadow margins at Wyre Piddle and Eckington, and in the chimney stacks and eaves of the older Abbey town and market-centre properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
WR11 4UG· approx. 9 km
Visit websiteWR1 1AA· approx. 13 km
Visit websiteGL50 1QA· approx. 24 km
Visit websiteAssociation data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
The Vale of Evesham opens the year with apple, pear, plum and the last surviving commercial asparagus flowers. Oilseed rape fills the middle fields; hawthorn and sycamore line the lanes. Lime dominates the June streetscape of Worcester, Malvern and Kidderminster. The Malvern Hills bring limestone grassland herbs and a small late-summer heather supplement on the upper slopes; bramble is universal. The tail of the year still carries some traditional hop-garden forage around Bromsgrove, and ivy on the old black-and-white villages closes the season.
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