Stourport-on-Severn is a Georgian canal town at the confluence of the River Stour and the Severn, created almost entirely by the opening of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in 1771 and still defined by its handsome Georgian basin and riverside gardens. The Severn floodplain here carries extensive riverside willows, crack willow and black poplar that provide an early spring pollen crop; the Stour corridor upstream towards Kidderminster is lined with alder carr and mixed hedgerow. Hartlebury Common and the Stagborough Hill heathland to the south add a genuine heather supplement from July, and the orchards and market gardens of the Severn vale add a spring fruit-blossom flow.
Collectors in Stourport regularly attend swarms along the Georgian canal basin and Severn riverside willows, in the riverside gardens and parkland of the Lickhill and Areley Kings banks, in the heathland gorse and heather scrub at Hartlebury Common, and in the older brick terrace chimney pots and eaves of the Lichfield Street and Lion Hill districts.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
DY11 6TL· approx. 5 km
Visit websiteDY10 4PY· approx. 8 km
Visit websiteWR6 6JT· approx. 8 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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