Donal Hickey: Landscape pretty as a picture with wild flowers

Donal Hickey: Our roadside ditches and hedgerows are aglow with wild flowers.

The memory of an Englishman whose colour photography made an immense contribution to Irish tourism comes to mind this summer as our roadside ditches and hedgerows are aglow with wild flowers and plants.

John Hinde would have a field day photographing the landscape of the west, which is ablaze with the reddish-orange montbretia and red-belled fuchsia, among many other delights.