Kumar McMillanApr 13, 2025

It’s not even peak gorse yet 😍

📍#HermitageOfBraid #BlackfordHill #Edinburgh

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Up close, blooming gorse smells like honey ✨

📍#BlackfordHill #Edinburgh

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#Gorse trails ✨ #BlackfordHill #Edinburgh
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“It’s gorse!” (?)

📍#BlackfordHill #Edinburgh

Show threadKumar McMillanApr 26, 2025

Read a book surrounded by blooming #gorse

📍#BraidHills #Edinburgh

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Almost at peak #gorse

📍#BraidHills #Edinburgh

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#gorse flowers still popping on #CraiglockhartHill today

📍#Edinburgh

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📍#CraiglockhartHill #Edinburgh
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#gorse is for #lovers ✨

📍Salisbury Crags #Edinburgh

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Arthur’s Seat, sprinkled with blooming #gorse flowers ✨

📍Hollyrood Park #Edinburgh

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Explosion of #gorse flowers on Arthur’s Seat 🌼

📍Hollyrood Park #Edinburgh

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Ridge of #gorse blooms 🌼

📍#PentlandHills #Edinburgh

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Sparkling #gorse patch ✨

📍#PentlandHills #Edinburgh

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📍Boghall Glen #PentlandHills #Edinburgh
Show threadKumar McMillanMay 10, 2025
I might be a little obsessed with #gorse
Show threadJeff ForcierMay 5, 2025
@kumarvibe nice composition! “Nice hillside and flowers” -> “ooh a far-distant background too!”
Show threadCiwi 🏳️‍🌈May 4, 2025
@kumarvibe so beautiful!! 
Show threadSteve WartApr 27, 2025
@kumarvibe that is an epic quantity of gorse
Show threadKumar McMillanApr 27, 2025

@swart yes, it’s like a majestic spiky beast that has devoured everything in sight 😍 It’s constantly in bloom, most reliably between January and June, because it can self-pollinate in case insects aren’t around.

It’s fascinating: https://thepracticalalchemist.uk/f/the-glory-of-gorse?utm_source=perplexity

The Glory Of Gorse

Gorse may be one of the most underrated common wild plants of the British Isles. It is mostly abundant on our coast and heathland but where I live in Scotland, you can find it fringing farmers’ fields as well.

The Practical Alchemist
Show threadoisinApr 27, 2025
@kumarvibe same season across the sea near Dublin, the buttery smell of it is incredible
Show threadPaul MartinApr 27, 2025
@[email protected] @[email protected] It's almost vanilla like to me.
Show threadKumar McMillanApr 27, 2025
@nowster @oisin I was reading how some people smell coconut but others don’t. What a funny little flower. To me it’s honey and vanilla.