heather-bushes

Updated: January 10, 2026

And when Theseus was full fifteen years old she took him up with her to the temple, and into the thickets of the grove which grew in the temple-yard. And she led him to a tall plane-tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk, and purple heather-bushes.

Charles Kingsley - The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children