Heather National Flower

Heather is the national flower of norway.

Heather national flower. I have now learnt that this heather the national flower of the turks caicos islands is a rather elusive and mysterious plant. National flowers are symbols representing a country. This requires finding the plants and taking gps co ordinates on a handheld computer.

However if left undisturbed heather plants will live for over 20 years and the stems eventually become very tough and woody with few leaves or flowers. Heather is found under the l genus calluna under the ericaceae family. Heather flowers bloom in late summer wild species of heather flowers are usually in purple or mauve shades.

Today we decided to pick some up and put them in our sparsely populated windowboxes even though we weren t really sure what we were getting. Heather grows freely and abundantly spreading it s glorious purple hues across around five million acres of scottish moorland glens and hills. Consequently gamekeepers manage the heather by burning it when the stems get to about wellie top height.

It has many scale leaves that grow along the stems as well as tiny purple flowers. Heather the national flower of norway. Flowers in bags purple heather.

I ve been looking longingly at beautiful flowers in the farmer s market for the past few weekends. Heather calluna vulgaris scotch heather ling heather is an evergreen branching shrub. During the middle ages the flower was used to colour sheep wool and in some places replaced hops in the brewing of beer.

How oft though moss and grass are seen tann d bright for want of flowers still keeps the ling its darksome green thickset with little flowers john clare quoted by ann pratt wild flowers 1857. The heather flower is an evergreen flowering shrub with hundreds of bell shaped flowers up and down it s spike like stems. Perhaps it s because it was and still is so readily available that the scots have found so many practical uses for one of their national flowers.