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Wild Heather (Calluna vulgaris)

By David

Wild Heather (Calluna vulgaris) (Calluna vulgaris (Heather))

6 Aug, 2009
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Comments on this photo

Irish

beautiful

7 Aug, 2009

David

Do you have this over there, Irish?

7 Aug, 2009

Gardengnome

Very pretty David.

11 Aug, 2009

Gardeningfr..

I have a purple flowering heather in my garden. It is the same colour as that flowering at the top of your photo. It is not flowering at the moment and was at it's best in the spring so I don't think it can be the same heather as your picture. The flowers on my heather are more numerous / tightly packed than in the photo. You have got me wondering what mine is now.

13 Aug, 2009

David

Possibly a hybridized cultivar bred especially for gardens, Gf. Of course, we can now buy heathers which will bloom in every month of the year. The wild one, however, here, always begins flowering in July and will give the hill- and mountainsides a purple colouring.

14 Aug, 2009

David

Further thought!

Some "heathers" are also found under "Erica" (carnea). ?

16 Aug, 2009