heather

Preposition: on

fire: Well, for a start it's got a rubbish name - all weather alcohol cookset hardly sets the heather on fire.

Converse of subject

dominate: Where the soil is very acid, dune heath develops, often dominated by heather.

Adjective modifier

• purple: Later in the year purple heather stands out resplendent against the golden bracken.
• flowering: This is the first year we have had a strong show of flowering heather.
• giant: We carry on to John matte which is close to the river in a grove of Giant heather.
• thick: The trees became sparse and were replaced by tall, thick heather.
• mature: The traps were placed among mature heather on ground that is usually wet in winter.
• lucky: Sorry, that was a Gypsy girl who always sells me some lucky heather.

Modifies a noun

• moorland: Heather moorland covers about 40 % of the Park.
• moor: A few are ready in July but most are finished on the late summer pasture and meadows after earlier grazing the heather moors.
• honey: Mix the heather honey with the malt whiskey in a mixing bowl.
• ledge: The middle tier is divided by a diagonal heather ledge, running from bottom left to top right.
• thatch: Today a heather thatch can be seen at the Cragside estate.
• burning: Fire hazard is incr easing in some areas where there is insufficient heather burning.

Noun used with modifier

• ling: Local guides will map a hike through bog moss and ling heather or outfit you for a day of angling for Scottish salmon.
• bell: Today, this dry raised fan of material supports a rich heath vegetation dominated by bell heather which is home to the Red Grouse.
• tree: Prune young tree heathers by cutting off half of last year's growth; this ensures a shapely plant in future years.

Preposition: in

• bloom: Visit in August to see the heather in bloom.
• summer: Vivid broom in the spring, carpets of purple heather in high summer, ripening chestnuts in autumn - each season has unique qualities.

Preposition: of

age: Careful rotational heather burning by the gamekeeper maintains a mosaic of heather of variable age.