We turned left onto it, through an undulating sea of purple heather up to Golden Heights.

We were lucky enough to be there when the purple heather was blooming, and from the summit, we could see well into Wales.

The moorland stretched for miles on all sides, a dark sea of purple heather, just past its prime.

Behind, the range of mountains where the deep green of summer and the purple heather was just coming into full bloom.

Between infrequent villages purple heather carpeted the country, forming ground cover even in forest.

Here and there patches of purple heather bloomed.

The surrounding area is very beautiful with gentle hills, waterfalls and purple heather.

To lie with her in the purple heather by a loch and listen to the wind in the pine.

Matching check kilts, playing in the purple heather.

The slopes below them were covered with banks of purple heather.