Irish heather

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After a busy weekend I was ready to have myself a quiet night in until I noticed the sky was like none I had seen before so I made the short journey up onto Alnwick Moors and set up for sunset. However I was there far to early and happened to glance over towards the Rothbury crossroads and I noticed the light highlighting the heather over on the moor, so i quickly packed up all my gear and made a mad dash over the A697 crossroads and parked in one of the many lay-bys and settled down for an…

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Fraoch mór is the Irish name for heather, Calluna vulgaris and it can be found over large parts of the Irish landscape. It is also known as ling and it prefers acidic, boggy soils that cover the upland areas of Ireland. These are places that often, at first glance, appear barren with vast open tracts of treeless ground with only heath in view as far as the eye can see. But when the heather is flowering the uplands are filled with the sounds of bees busy collecting pollen. From April to…

Irish heather carpets the mountainous landscape of the Emerald Isle, adding natural, pale-pink and purple hues to the splendid scenery.

Heather's scientific name, Calluna vulgaris, comes from the Greek Kallune, meaning to clean or brush, as heather twigs were once used for making brooms.

Scottish Heather. Heather is seen as iconic of Scotland, where the plant grows widely. When poems like Bonnie Auld Scotland speak of "fragrant hills of purple heather', when the hero of Kidnapped flees through the heather, when heather and Scotland are linked in the same sentence, the heather talked about is Calluna vulgaris.

Irish heather carpets the mountainous landscape of the Emerald Isle, adding natural, pale-pink and purple hues to the splendid scenery.