Fuchsia lights up countryside

GLORIOUS fuchsia, so much part of the landscape of West Cork and Kerry, seems to be growing in greater profusion than ever this year, as anyone travelling those areas can testify.

This is probably due to all the wet and quite warm weather we’ve been having.

The fuchsia’s pink, purple and reddish colour the ditches of the south-west from July to October, lighting up the countryside. The impact of the fuchsia really came home during a recent walk along roads in the northern side of the Dingle Peninsula, from the Maharees, through Fermoyle Beach and into Cloghane.