The bilberry bushes are just pushing through last year's flattened bracken and this year's rising heather. |
Elsewhere, dozens of residents had to be evacuated in Gwent, Wales, where hundreds of mature trees, bracken, gorse and shrubs were destroyed. |
Given the sandy soils, the ground flora in these areas is dominated by bracken, wavy hair grass and common cow wheat. |
Like adventurers, we followed him up and up through the bracken, heather and gorse, thrashing the undergrowth aside with sticks. |
Other weed species found include bracken, which is now associated with acidic grassland rather than arable fields. |
The British pteridologists have had lively discussions as to how many races of the bracken exist in western Europe and adjacent areas. |