I've now written about the Ogham Tree Alphabet and this book many times on the blog. It's been very useful book for filling blog posts!
But there's one plant mentioned in the book that I've not written about before...........The Heather.
Heather represents the Summer Solstice, which was yesterday and instead of a bright early sunrise with the heatwave there was mist hanging around and even some spots of rain just after 11.
Heather represents the letter U in the Ogham Alphabet and the number 18. It also means solitude.
Last September I took a photo of the glorious purple heather on the heath near Dunwich
And picked a sprig for luck which sat on the dashboard in the car for the next month falling to pieces until I realised it would make a blog post.
Each heather plant looks like a tree in miniature, with a gnarled and twisted 'trunk' up to 18 inches tall. Bees love the nectar of heather flowers and heather honey is prized.
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A favorite flower ! I associate it with childhood memories on the coast of Brittany. It is also one of the traditional flowers people put on the graves for All Saints' Day.
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I love Heather honey, it’s so delicate tasting, these days I just buy the blends - budgetary reasons! Something very appealing about those illustrations.
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That's a nice photo of the heather that you took in September.
ReplyDeleteI really love heather, I used to sell it alongside the potted lavender in my shop in Cumbria. What I do hate are the multi-coloured sprayed heathers that garden centres seem to all have later on in the year. It's beautiful just as it is.
ReplyDeletePurple heather is beautiful. I did not know it represents solitude. I like it even more for that. It does look tree-like making it doubly lovely.
ReplyDeleteDoes this heather have a particular name? It does not look like heather sold at the garden centers.
If I could buy some, I'd love growing it behind my home. A nice large island of heather would be great.