As I understand it, there are two main types of gorse that grow down here. One is common gorse and that s what you re seeing now (it grows somewhere all the year round) and the other is western gorse that blooms from July to November. The second is smaller but there s another called dwarf gorse and I expect that grows here too but I don t know for sure. I also know that all seven kinds of heather/heath/ling are all found in Cornwall and not elsewhere. Our national plant, very localised but abundant where found, is Erica Vagans or Cornish Heath and is not seen in many other places, one of them in an isolated spot in Ireland somewhere.
I ve noticed the gorse this spring seems to be an even more intense shade of yellow than ever. Perhaps it s the tint on my groovy new shades but I rather think it is the gorse.
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