In this cold weather, it lifts the spirits to see carpets of bright golden flowers of gorse bushes ablaze across commons, heaths, hedgerows, roadsides and derelict land. Gorse flowers are at their ...

The golden yellow flowers of the gorse or furze bushes across Ireland have the distinction of being the longest blooming flowers. With their coconut smell and blueish/green spiky stems, these pod-like ...

Gorse is in flower at present and it is one of the few among our native wild flowers that continues to flower throughout all months of the year. On dull, dark, and dreary days as late winter ...

Nature's long winter sleep has come to an end and the roadsides, if not the hedgerows, are greening splendidly. I have already enjoyed my first wild garlic dish of the year and was pleased to be ...

Spring light is lingering longer into the early evening and gorse flowers are blooming all over the countryside. Their little flower petals are like yellow headlights that brighten up the landscape.