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Sentence Examples Up to eight warblers may arrive in dense gorse thickets, particularly on clear, cold nights. So she is understandably dismissive of the dismal gorse and whin on view outside the living room window of her Council house. Before the gorse, goat willow and bramble were all problems needing a lot of labor to manage. The Dartford warbler is an active, inquisitive bird rarely allowing us more than a fleeting glimpse before diving for cover in gorse and heather. We found it quite quickly, a patch of grass with yellow gorse bushes dotted here and there around, blue vetch and clover, bright red Herb Robert. Landowners who did not hunt were still expected to plant and maintain gorse coverts. Later still, the hounds were taken to gorse a few hundred yards from the same road near Hatchet Pond from where they hunted the fox in full cry. There's more moorland and open heath here than woodland, more gorse and heather than noble oak. Turning onto a side road, we drove a short distance and parked the car where it would be hidden in the gorse. A third of it is open heathland, carpeted with purple heathers and spotted yellow with gorse. Like adventurers, we followed him up and up through the bracken, heather and gorse, thrashing the undergrowth aside with sticks. Later however, the men of the parish got together and cleared gorse and heather from the present festival field at Gurteen and sowed grass seed. Small, subtly contoured greens lined with gorse and heather tumble beneath vast sandy hills. There was a thick border of heather and gorse between the rocky paths and the sea, and the band stopped here. The smell of fresh turf, blooming heather and the nearby gorse or whins are never forgotten once experienced. Thousands of saplings were planted and native gorse was established to create wildlife habitats. It's a shared space and has heathers, ferns, gorse and many wild flowers growing on it. A mosaic of heather, grass patches and burned-off gorse in the Ladder Hills creates a fashionable camouflage effect. The Old Course wasn't built, it simply evolved, a combination of scrubby seaside turf, wispy grasses, prickly gorse and rolling dunes. The choice of elm, gorse and mimosa reflects these extremes and reinforces the vegetation already present. Show More Sentences Elsewhere, dozens of residents had to be evacuated in Gwent, Wales, where hundreds of mature trees, bracken, gorse and shrubs were destroyed. Glaisdale Low Moor was to our south, painted in subtle spring shades with the occasional gorse in full flower burning bush mode. The axis was revolving to show gorse gullies, rocky gulches and biscuit-coloured eroded clay crusts. Around two hectares of undergrowth, gorse bushes and an oak tree were destroyed. In front of the beech hedge, a patch of un-cultivated land overflowed with flowering thyme, rosemary and gorse. The majority of the land was covered in gorse and tea tree, and 50 percent of it was non-productive. Vegetation such as gorse, heather and white grass is considered to be high fire risk while grassland is low risk. There was a little colour in the yellow gorse and the silver birch. No matter, because a new fingerpost points down Potter Lane, a sunken track, wall and gorse each side with foxgloves ready to overwinter in the algae green rocks. The designers intend recreating not only the holes but the unique flora and fauna, such as gorse, heather and different types of grass, that make them so special. The next morning was spent fishing quickly down the stunning River Corran through heather and gorse, the Paps in the background and the sea to the east. Heather, gorse bush, lily, blue thistle, ochre stone, wild colours, heavily fragranced air, sea ciselled stones, sun and fogs? The heather and gorse were filled with the distinctive bird calls of stonechats and the rare red-legged, red-billed choughs. The eastern side is characterized by shrub vegetation with gorse, the area of Ginostra by the presence of olive trees that were planted here. Eventually, as nothing was made by chance, a yellow border remains the colour of gorse flowers. Carrubba, gorse, olive, mastic tree and lavender are a known feature of this walk. Peasants who planted in their farms seeds from Portugal often together with cereal or gorse used this tree in reforestation. This consists of sparse, dry thickets featuring sun-loving shrubs which have adapted to the aridity: gorse, rosemary, rockroses. Though slowed by a steep slope and gorse bushes, Cromwell's attacked totally overwhelmed Langdale's Northern Horse. Further along there was a bank of that which, under this lighting, resembled gorse, yellow gorse, but here the plant had no thorns to it. Show More Sentences This is upland country, a landscape that changes from the green and gorse you see near the coast to barer tussocky hills, surrounded on all sides by mountain ranges. Excavation ceased in the 1950s and the area is now overgrown with woodland, bracken and gorse which provides a habitat for birds, snakes and mammals. After lunch, I took a short walk along the path, and stopped behind a gorse bush, both for shelter from a cool wind, and to screen me from the birds. The non-intensive moor was lovely with some hazy silver birch, vivid green mosses, rushes, bilberries, bleached and tufted grasses and a touch of gorse. Throughout the Island gorse forms most of the fences, growing on the top and from the sides of the various banks and hedges, and when in blow is really beautiful. Delicate lily-pads had been carefully placed on the glassy mirror of a thousand reflections, and clumps of reeds, bullrushes and gorse made forty-one shades of green. There's dehydrated egg yolk grated over the top, gorse flowers and an earthy flavour from big green leaves of pennywort. Amongst which, the endemic plants whereof their existence is closely linked to the living conditions in and around this pond, covered with gorse and papyrus. As for non-tree vegetation, the most extensive plant formation consists of the Atlantic heath, composed mainly of shrubs such as gorse, heather, gorse and carquexia. In New Zealand, it has been nicknamed 'gorse of the seas' because the damage it does can be as severe as that caused by gorse, a major terrestrial plant pest. The dry wood of dead gorse stems provides food for the caterpillars of the concealer moth Batia lambdella. Common gorse is also an invasive species in the montane grasslands of Horton Plains National Park in Sri Lanka. The very little natural vegetation consists of tabaibas, prickly pears and gorse, while the native fauna is represented by the lizard would do, the blind crab, shrikes, hawks and terns. The dominant vegetation is oak Carvallo, Tozo oak, pine and Galician, beech, alder, birch, ash, willow, poplar, cottonwood, oak, oak, heather, gorse and juniper, interspersed with ferns and permanent pastures green. Seedlings of western gorse too, and grassier swards of fescues and hair-grasses, a scattering of sheep's sorrel and heath bedstraw. Particles of mica-schist glistened in beach stones like gold, blooming plumages of iris, foxglove and gorse surrounded us and the water stretched out to a solitary swan drifting across the bay. Broom, gorse, heather, and bracken are found. Woods, hedgerows, mountain slopes and marshes host heather, wild grasses, gorse and bracken. The drovers brought back gorse seed, which they sowed to provide food for their sheep. Gorse bushes are highly flammable, and in many areas bundles of gorse were used to fire traditional bread ovens. Show More Sentences The prolific gorse and bracken would be cut, dried and stored to be used as fuel, with farmhouses having purpose built furze ovens. The gorse is also the emblem of Brittany and is regaining popularity in Cornwall particularly on St Pirans Day. Mary's, he sowed gorse and trees to provide shelter for the agricultural land. There were hardly any trees on the island and the gorse did not provide enough protection so he planted shelterbelts. Other hardy plants such as common gorse bushes and wild cabbage can also be found. More wobbles lie ahead, but the smart money is still on an eventual deal. If the economics of this latest iteration of the euro crisis are no thornier than before, the politics have turned into a veritable gorse bush. The ACT Government also had a helping hand from the miniscule eight-legged gorse spider mite. The animals are reared in the traditional way on farms being extensively grazed on the characteristic island vegetation of unimproved pasture, gorse and bracken scrub, and heather moorland. Aside from grasses, the most common plants found in the Mournes are heathers and gorse. With an abrupt and rugged relief, the predominant vegetation in Costur is basically made up of Mediterranean scrublands, notably holm oaks, gorse, rosemary, palmetto, Phoenician juniper and juniper. The climate is typically Mediterranean, with hot summers and moderate winters, favouring the growth of Mediterranean forest vegetation, such as pines, gorse and rosemary. Common gorse flowers a little in late autumn and through the winter, coming into flower most strongly in spring. In addition, 66 projects were delivered targeting blackberry, gorse, Paterson's curse, serrated tussock, ragwort and Bathurst burr and rabbit control. The mountainy fields rose quietly outside it towards gorse and heather. Large European gorse bushes grow on the cliff, with the shelter they provide allowing other plants such as wild cabbage and bird's foot trefoil to thrive. Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The name Chagford is derived from the word chag, meaning gorse or broom, and the ford suffix indicates its importance as a crossing place on the River Teign. Bleached stones and blackened gorse stems can still be seen and the vegetation has not recovered sufficiently to equal the waved heath elsewhere on Scilly. Examples from Classical Literature There is no better terrier exists to drive heavy gorse for rabbits than the Dandie Dinmont. If the gorse should fail the fuchsia might even take its place on the mountains. All around stretches the wavelike succession of the hills, diversified with forest and bright with heather and gorse. It's 'Kate' in the sea, and 'Kate' in the river, and the trees and the gorse. And then Silas, in his smock frock and wide hat, strode away over gorse and heather, and left the sisters alone. It was a pretty scene, with a background of late-flowering gorse bushes and a foreground of corn marigold that edged the field. Just stirring the peats, and boiling the kettle, and lifting the gorse when there was any fire. Incidentally we may remark that the whinchat is also a frequenter of the gorse coverts and the moorlands. It lives upon the gorse just as parasitically as the little green aphides live upon our rose-bushes. He took me for a long walk to break it to me, over the hills towards yare and across the great gorse commons by Hazelbrow. Nae, the pastures were brown, or purple and yellow with heather and gorse. He had on a pair of moss trousers, and his coat was a yellow gorse flower. Before him was the moorland, covered with heather and gorse bushes. He could smell the hot aromatic scent of the gorse and wild thyme. She groped her way, touching the prickly gorse, to the door, and pushed it open. In Morbihan the gorse gilds all the hills, yellow as golden-rod. The heath was covered with golden patches of flowering gorse, gleaming magnificently in the light of the bright spring sunshine. It was the second night running fire fighters had been called to tackle gorse fires. Meanwhile they fired the gorse in front of the 29th Division. Why, to carry her, you torment, to carry her through the gorse like this. Show More Sentences The bees buzzed about the wild thyme and the golden heads of gorse. I reload rapidly, and on reaching the gorse 'put in' the dogs. The gorse was fast extending its golden empire over the commons. I turned quickly from the pond and pressed a way through the gorse. Sisters Reanne and Leah Gavin, from Hepworth Road, Binley, each gave the Queen a posy of flowers containing tulips, purple gorse and fearn. Beneath him is the valley of the Frome, and all the wild lands that come tossing down from Dorchester, black and gold, to mirror their gorse in the expanses of Poole. Crude Anglo-Irishisms and Synge-sayings suffered 'Their sowls to de divil', or 'de divil take 'em', or some such, but these don't cut no gorse no more. Th largest bush in the island is scarcely so tall as our gorse. Find more words! 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