Obnoxious

[Rense Haveman]

At least in some parts of Atlantic Europe. In the Netherlands it is a rather rare species, and it forms real scrubs only in half a dozen locations or so. Gorse!


Gorse scrub - Posbank area by Rense Haveman, on Flickr



Gorse scrub - Posbank area by Rense Haveman, on Flickr



Gorse scrub - Posbank area by Rense Haveman, on Flickr



Gorse scrub - Posbank area by Rense Haveman, on Flickr

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

The three first ones are my favourites, especially the 3rd with its leading path and stand alone tree. Greatly done.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Gorse here is very common . As kids it was a favourite to use the flowers to make a bubbly drink, a bit like elderberry fizzy drink. Lovely it was as well.
Like the set Rense, the colours are good and brings a real presence to the place.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Tons of the stuff around here. So much so I never thought of photographing it, but you've changed my mind. These look great.

 

[Douglas McMann]

No.3 for me...so much going on in that sky, and a great wee lead-in line...

Likewise, the stuff is very common here...

 

[Brian Moore]

#3 for me as well. The sky is beautiful in that one and the foreground yellow flowers are illuminated beautifully.

 

[Pete Askew]

Lovely set, Rense and this could so easily be Asdown Forest or parts of the South Downs where I grew up. So a very familiar plant to me but something of a contentious one. Anyway, love it or hate it, this set captures it beautifully and I like the first especially.

 

[Rense Haveman]

Thank you! I love it, probably because it's so rare around here. But the early flowers in such abundance..... What's not to love?
(Okay, don't throw yourself in....)

 

[Pete Askew]

It does tend to take over and not much can grow under it. Also there is the fire risk in the summer. In Southern England whole areas catch light. Still, as kids we loved it and made dens and camps amongst the thorns.

 

[Dave Green]

No3 for me I can spend a few hours in Gorse Bush with my macro lens - always plenty of bugs