Word Finder - heather

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An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.

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The Ericaceae family.

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Various species of the genus Erica.

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Various species of the genus Cassiope.

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A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.

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The use of interwoven yarns of mixed colours to produce flecks.

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Of a purple colour with a tint with pink and blue.

The soil is quartz sand and is chiefly covered with heather and brushwood.

Five well-contrasted types of scenery in Derbyshire are clearly traceable to as many varieties of rock; the bleak dry uplands of the north and east, with deep-cut ravines and swift clear streams, are due to the great mass of Mountain Limestone; round the limestone boundary are the valleys with soft outlines in the Pendleside Shales; these are succeeded by the rugged moorlands, covered with heather and peat, which are due to the Millstone Grit series; eastward lies the Derbyshire Coalfield with its gently moulded grasscovered hills; southward is the more level tract of red Triassic rocks.

Heather covers large tracts, and also affords pasture for sheep. The development of forest trees is insignificant.

Holm of Papal, "isle of the priest" (2), belonging to Bressay parish, and Linga, "heather isle" (8), to the parish of Tingwall, lie S.E.

The dry heath areas are dominated by ling, bell heather and bristle bent grass.

The retention of the tropical pattern by the Highlanders is due directly to environment, since the kilt is better suited than trousers for walking over wet heather.

He was formally acquitted of the charge by the trial judge Mrs Justice Heather Hallett.

On walks ashore you find amazingly lush vegetation, including mountain avens, saxifrages, poppies, cotton grass and white bell heather.

Others include beech, ash, birch, heather and peat.

Apple blossom Heather Self raising flower Clover 4. What do beekeepers call the special box their bees live in?

The heather brash is then applied onto the worst eroded areas of blanket bog.

How fortunate are Hong Kong to have Heather Dayton - her welcome, efficiency and general bonhomie are much to be admired.

Many a poor man I passed that would never move or see the heather clad braes of his native heath.

Fire hazard is incr easing in some areas where there is insufficient heather burning.

Careful rotational heather burning by the gamekeeper maintains a mosaic of heather of variable age.

Pull straight up to finish just right of a large clump of heather.

The surface vegetation is usually coniferous woodland or heather moorland.

Heather Stern steps up to handle the editorial blurb and train some scripts to help keep the answers conversational.

At the top, a traverse to the belay of Culloden was needed to avoid a huge heather cornice.

These floors were made up of heather, straw and peat interspersed with, often discontinuous, ash and grit layers.

Lester showed us a slide of his spin drier in action spinning out heather honey.

Rachael finished behind Germany's Susanne Hirt with fellow Briton Heather Corrie placed eleventh.

Stuffed with superb illustrations, this brilliant book will have you bounding through the heather on an exciting escapade!

Large quantities of very deep heather make the firebreak unsuitable for pedestrians, or for stopping a fire.

Local plants include common heather, bell heather, cross-leaved heath, bog asphodel, sundews and marsh gentian.

Common heather is frequent, but western gorse is a feature of the dry heath.

Hot summer days will find the heath grasshopper and bees on the heather blossoms, and solitary wasps mining tunnels in sandy banks.

Kingsway Guest House, Edinburgh Heather and Ian welcome you to our Victorian guesthouse.

In England, breeding hen harriers are restricted to upland heather moorlands.

Today, this dry raised fan of material supports a rich heath vegetation dominated by bell heath vegetation dominated by bell heather which is home to the Red Grouse.

Where the soil is very acid, dune heath develops, often dominated by heather.

Later in the year purple heather stands out resplendent against the golden bracken.

This is the first year we have had a strong show of flowering heather.

We carry on to John matte which is close to the river in a grove of giant heather.

The trees became sparse and were replaced by tall, thick heather.

The traps were placed among mature heather on ground that is usually wet in winter.

Local guides will map a hike through bog moss and ling heather or outfit you for a day of angling for Scottish salmon.

Today, this dry raised fan of material supports a rich heath vegetation dominated by bell heather which is home to the Red Grouse.

The aspect of the surrounding country is bleak and barren, consisting of hills above hills clothed with scanty herbage or heather.

Soon, heather blocked her way and, pushing through it, she found herself on a high hilltop.

The barrow is certainly a very indistinct one in long heather.

Heather likes that way of life and secretly keeps kosher and the Sabbath â but how can she confront her family and friends?

Muirburn warning after weekend of fires Police are urging landowners to take care when burning heather on their land.

The aroma is of heather moor burning but with some quite scented and floral notes, which could include lavender.

The middle tier is divided by a diagonal heather ledge, running from bottom left to top right.

The freely draining impoverished ands and gravels support a very simple flora which is dominated by ling and bell heather.

Higher still lies the moorland zone, where a cover of giant heather is studded with otherworldly giant lobelias.

Later farming communities also employed fire to clear vegetation and the spread of heather moor in the upland probably accelerated from late prehistory onwards.

The heather uplands and peat moors form part of a Special Protection Area, that is of international importance for breeding birds.

Or heather honey combined with chocolate and rolled in chocolate flakes and toasted oatmeal.