bell-heather

Sheila had left no instructions about the removal of those barbaric decorations she had placed in the chamber; and here, around him, seemed to be the walls of the old fashioned little room at Borvabost, with its big shells, its peacocks 'feathers, its skins and stuffed fish, and masses of crimson bell-heather.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

Still nearer at hand great masses of white rock lay embedded in the soft soil; and what could have harmonized better with the rough and silver-gray surface than the patches of rose-red bell-heather that grew up in their clefts or hung over their summits?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

The square of the open door was filled with green and purple -- the green of the rank nettle, the purple of the bell-heather she had been always careful to spare as she had gone in and out.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

Fresh-blown ling and the beautiful spikes of the bell-heather formed the staple of the decorations, and Mairi had brought enough to adorn an assembly-room.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

In the early summer there is a special soft greenness, and the hot air quivers above and about the rocks; later the hill-sides are coloured by the lilac-pink of the ling and the richer tones of bell-heather; and when the autumn leaves are fading and falling

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

And where had she pulled those splendid bunches of bell-heather?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

The day Rachael and I came there was a clump of bell-heather just on that point of rock.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

We walked along it that night as far as the 'Brig of Turk,' gathering bell-heather and bluebells as we went.

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917

They edge the horizon like inverted pudding bowls covered with bracken, and with bell-heather kindling to crimson in the July sunlight.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

In August, when the ling is out with the bell-heather, and the pines stand deep in fern and rushes, no lovelier carpet spreads under any Surrey hill.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912