Apr 242017
These lovely flowers grow in huge numbers along the Connemara seashore. Somehow they seem to be able to thrive on solid rocks battered by the Atlantic waves. It has been a cold spring this year, and few of these are flowering, but I found one plant in flower yesterday nestled in a hollow of the cliff-face at the beach in Rossadilisk, near Cleggan. I have also come across them growing at the rocky summit of a mountain in the Twelve Bens. The plant is also sometimes known by the name “Thrift”.
