Irish heather

Bog Heather II

Purple Heather, Ireland via the reading room

Heather in the Highlands of Scotland

John O'Grady, oil on panel

Heather, Wicklow Mountains on the road to Glenamalure

Painting of Ireland, purple bog heather, morning haze

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 Wildflowers and wildflower images lore and background from Ireland a personal collection of compiled by Zoe Devlin

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

Heather in August

The Mourne Mountains of Ireland -- replete with purple heather and mist

JohnOGradypaintings.com, Morning mist and Bog HeatherII

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

Irish Wildflowers and wildflower images lore and background from Ireland a personal collection of compiled by Zoe Devlin

There are a lot of geographic features in Ireland. Areas vary from the granite, sandstone and limestone mountains to the karst area of the Burren, with limestone, shale and sandstone to the basalt…

Will Ye Go, Lassie? (Wild Mountain Thyme) Oh the summertime is coming And the trees are sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather Will ye go, Lassie go? Chorus And we'll all go together To pluck wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, Lassie go? I will build my love a tower Near yon' pure crystal fountain And on it I will build All the flowers of the mountain Will ye go, Lassie go? If my true love she were gone I would surely find…

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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…