Anja Murray: The Burren in bloom — home to a wealth of wildflowers and butterflies

Often described as one of the jewels in the crown of Irish biodiversity

An 'ark' of biodiversity — The Burren in County Clare

This past weekend, to celebrate ‘International Day for Biodiversity’, I was lucky to do something that I had wanted to do for years: visit the Burren in County Clare during the month of May. 

Because the rocky limestone terrain gets so dry in summer, many of the flowering plants that grow in this unique place have to flower and set seed early in the year, before the drought-like conditions in high summer get the better of them.