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Wildfires and peat

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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What is likely to grow on the peat lands destroyed by wildfires?
In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Heather. That's what grows up here. 
    However, it would have to be there already. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That’s presuming that the peat isn’t burning underground of course … I can remember that happening …

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's happening in France at the moment
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Pretty much everything that grows there anyway. Lots of moors are burnt as part of their management (another topic for discussion that)
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That was the reason for my answer @Skandi ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I am pleased to say that peat burning on the moors around our house has been banned.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Like Fairygirl I was tempted to say Rhododendrons but, again, they need to be there already.  I recall as a teenager happily felling chestnut for fencing stakes, blissfully unaware my fire was spreading away underground before suddenly erupting 25 yards away with 40 yard flames engulfing the Rhodies.
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Bilberries and heather grow on the peat areas by me.
    If our bees get up there we can get some delicious honey. 
    Bracken also grows .... not as useful!

    I don't recall any burning happening .... deliberate of accidental ... since we've been here.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    PS -  My experience was in the Ashdown Forest, N Sussex, not over here.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Bilberries here too and sun dew plants. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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