Sentence examples similar to Scots heather from inspiring English sources
The aim was to assess the spatio-temporal variability in soil moisture under Scots pine forest (Pinus sylvestris) and heather moorland shrubs (Calluna vulgaris); the two dominant vegetation types in the Scottish Highlands.
After waiting until 8pm local time to start on a rain-hit day, the Scot went down 6-3 6-0 in 56 minutes to leave Heather Watson as the only remaining Briton in singles at Roland Garros.
It is one of Britain's most special landscapes, an ancient wasteland whose acid, sandy soils were always too poor to farm for crops, so it was used as grazing for livestock and left to the heather and the gorse which could flourish there, and the silver birch trees and occasional Scots pines which sprang up among them.
It is a pleasure that will once again be denied to Scots-Americans this year, as the BBC's John Kelly wrote this week in a report that blew a breeze through the heather of the haggis-loving community.
"Heather... grass... more heather".
