heathland

How To Use heathland In A Sentence

• After his arrival in Cape Town, follow Monty on his tour of Grootbos private nature reserve in the Western Cape's fynbos heathland region, renowned for its unusual shrubs and trees. Setting off on a South African adventure
• What if the new wood is planted on an area of heathland?
• By the little bridge itself the turf is spangled with yellow quadrants of tormentil – a miniature heathland potentilla the woody, red, astringent rhizome of which was much prized by the apothecaries. Country diary: Barmouth
• Enjoy the fresh green landscape as you leave Hilversum on a leisurely ride through the heathlands and dunes.
• This will be replaced by mixed open forest and heathland, helping integrate the moorland, which has special protection status, to the forest.
• It gives new rights to walk over private land that can be classed as mountain, moorland, heathland or down.
• In the heathlands, with such frequent fires, plants have evolved to germinate only following fires, because then they can take advantage of the pulse of nutrients deposited in the soil by ash.
• To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery. Ducks, dragons, and dictionaries
• Across Europe, the biggest declines from 1990 to 2000 had been for bogs and fenland, heathland and coastal habitats.
• It was Clumber House, a mansion built by the Duke of Newcastle in 1767 and set in 3,800 acres of woodland and heathland now owned by the National Trust.