Spring forests in eastern Slovenia purple with blooming heather 

I love winter. I love everything about it. The light snowflakes filling the whole sky and the world turning calm and beautiful. However, when March rolls around, bringing the first warmer days and delicate little flowers, it’s next to impossible to go back to the cold. More likely than not you’ll see me exploring flower-speckled hills and forests than snowy mountains. And when larger parts of hills turn purple from the blooming heather, you can count me in!

This low-growing evergreen shrub is primarily found on moors, dunes, bogs, heaths and hillsides. Calluna vulgaris or heather is native to much of Europe and can be found in many parts of the northern US and Canada
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