heather
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Already green shoots of bracken are bursting through the blackened earth and that will crowd out the traditional heather, bilberry and cowberry.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Volunteers have been key to managing the wider heath, cutting gorse and heather in winter and removing pines.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
One imagines not the ghost of Cathy or Heathcliff, but a trio of women, very much alive and striding through the heather, their minds alight with the stories they would tell, set among similar terrain.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
The law in Northern Ireland states that the burning of vegetation such as heather, gorse, whin or fern may only be carried out between 1 September and 14 April.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
He saw the tall poplars and willows behind the house, in the fields where he stalked badgers, the rumpled hills covered in heather and bracken that spread for miles and miles, dotted with grazing sheep.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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