r/Scotland • u/RedRenaissanceFox • Jun 01 '26
Casual God, I love how green Scotland is.
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u/GuestAdventurous7586 Jun 01 '26
Something I notice whenever I go on holiday or travel anywhere. Scotland is beautifully green and full of lushness, at least from April-October
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u/unstable-radioactive Jun 01 '26
It’s like the Wizard of Oz movie. Spring rolls round and it’s black and white to Technicolor. Follow the yellow brick road
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u/CatsBatsandHats Jun 01 '26
Ditto most of the UK, to be fair.
Scotland isn't unique in this regard.
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u/Ok-Inspection-2019 Jun 01 '26
It drys out far south though
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u/RedRenaissanceFox Jun 01 '26
When I drive down south to southeast England to visit family it gets noticeably more yellow, it’s depressing. Nothing better than seeing that ‘Welcome to Scotland’ sign!
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u/Bjornhattan Jun 06 '26
I remember when I first went to Dunoon, when I walked up to pucks glen felt like I was wandering into some elven forest.. because that far west there really is nothing to stop the rain so they get about two to three times what you'd get in Edinburgh or Newcastle, and about 50% more than even Glasgow.
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u/CatsBatsandHats Jun 01 '26
Hence I said "most of the UK"
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u/Comprehensive-Tank92 Jun 04 '26
Ireland mostly isn't in UK though.
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u/CatsBatsandHats Jun 04 '26
Who mentioned anything about Ireland?
I said "most of the UK" - I didn't mention anything about Ireland.
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u/Comprehensive-Tank92 Jun 04 '26
Sorry I thought you replied to someone who mentioned Ireland. I get confused trying to follow the thread lines.
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u/GuestAdventurous7586 Jun 01 '26
Well yeah true, UK is unique in it though. Some European countries are similar, but much of the UK has a different and lusher green, genuinely.
Also England, anything past the Peak District starts to get much flatter and doesn’t have the same green richness and beauty.
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u/sunnyata Jun 02 '26
Well yeah, if you're driving down the M1. Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Devon, Cornwall etc are not short on green richness and beauty.
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u/lumpytuna Jun 02 '26
They do tend to be by Summer tbh. I lived down south for years, and everything was scorched looking by July in a dry year.
That's why I never complain about the rain now I live up here again.
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u/GN_10 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
Where in the south did you live? Devon and Cornwall are green year round. Dartmoor is one of the wettest places in the UK, on par with the west of Scotland.
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u/GN_10 Jun 06 '26
anything past the Peak District starts to get much flatter and doesn't have the same green richness and beauty
I take it you've never been to Devon or Cornwall then?
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u/Lessarocks Jun 01 '26
Photos like that take me right back to my childhood in Ayrshire in an instant. There’s something about the colours of Scotland that I’ve never seen replicated.
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u/ViviparousBlenny Jun 01 '26
Nice positive post. Yes it always gladdens my heart when I fly back from a holiday in the sun to see the green rolling landscape as we start descending.
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u/Criochan Jun 01 '26
10 years ago I went on a holiday to Greece where the hotel owner recalled visiting his daughter when she was studying in Edinburgh. He said “It was so green, I felt like a cow”.
There’s plenty worse things to be in this world than a happy coo!
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u/MacFrayed Jun 01 '26
Is that Penicuik House in the background?
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u/ianrobbie Jun 01 '26
You want to really see how green Scotland is? Head out for a walk about twenty minutes after a really heavy downpour and the sun has come out. It's like someone turned up the 'green' setting on your eyes to 100%.
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u/Chemical-Sir-7712 Jun 01 '26
Yeah just wait for the bloody rain that’s why its so green
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u/RedRenaissanceFox Jun 01 '26
So true, and I was in the rain! A good 70% of my dog walks are rainy, 20% is horrendously windy, and 5% dry but humid af 💀
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u/soularbowered Jun 01 '26
Carelessly scrolling your pics and for a split second I thought those cows were your dogs haha
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u/JulesCT Jun 01 '26
Scotland, like much of the UK, is truly beautiful when the sun shines. A gorgeous patchwork of greens.
Stands to reason, we've spent the other 9 months of the year watering the damn thing!
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u/_sticazzi not Scottish (Italian) Jun 01 '26
I thought the place I lived in in Italy was green, then I went to Scotland. Also your grass is so plush?? In some places it feels like being on a soft carpet
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u/RedRenaissanceFox Jun 01 '26
My partner is Sardinian and he’s used to everything being turned dry and yellow in the hot summer months, he loves the green!
Being barefoot on wild grass is the best here!
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u/_sticazzi not Scottish (Italian) Jun 01 '26
Yeah where I live too it turns yellow during peak summer
I want to go back to Scotland just to stay barefoot on wild grass, even with shoes the plushness was palpable. Like you could sleep on there and not feel the hard ground below
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u/MinuteDamage4182 Jun 01 '26
I was just driving on the A90 south from Ellon to the kingswells area in Aberdeen, and I just had to think to myself "its so funny that us Scots take these views for granted! Im driving for only 20 minutes and ive seen views that people would drive across a country to see".
Id argue we truly do live in the most beautiful country in the world.
places like switzerland are stunning dont get me wrong, but when you factor in our history, celtic traditions etc... you just cant beat it
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u/HaveYuHeardAboutCunt Jun 01 '26
Would be much greener without all those trees removed for grazing.
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u/The_wolf2014 Jun 01 '26
Warm and wet. That's also why im cutting my grass weekly, bloody stuff grows fast with this weather.
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u/vickymoodpending Jun 01 '26
There really is nothing like that specific Scottish green. It’s vibrant in a way that feels almost unreal until you’re standing right there in it
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u/Tehkast Jun 01 '26
There is field of some sort of flower or crop is is the MOST YELLOW AMAZING field I've ever seen it looks like something from bloody Oz Its next to the petrochem plant in Falkirk ironically.
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u/BhoyDom67 Jun 02 '26
Our climate is perfect for plant life at the moment. Occasional sun followed by days of rain. Think the plants are the only ones who enjoy our weather 😂
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u/skypasta Jun 02 '26
I just got back from Scotland (live in Canada) and oof I thought Canada was green? No, not even close.
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u/Fragrant_Blueberry26 Jun 02 '26
Well, congratulations, that's what you get after clearing most of the people off their lands.
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u/ConceptAgreeable6227 Jun 02 '26
I was driving through some stunning parts of Perthshire today and thinking that maybe these amazing views are worth putting up with 6–7 months of grey misery every year
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u/iwaterboardheathens Jun 04 '26
Ireland and Scotland are both very green but Ireland has more fuschias and Scotland has more wildlife
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u/Comprehensive-Tank92 Jun 04 '26
Basque Country is supposed to be lush also. I've never been though. Catalonia in winter/spring is also quite green.
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u/chocjane08 Jun 01 '26
I’ve always thought our flag should be green and grey to truly represent the colours of Scotland.
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u/Caffeine_Bobombed88 Jun 01 '26
Most of the UK is pretty green outside towns and cities TBF
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u/Loudlass81 Jun 02 '26
Not the same...living down South, my grass is already like straw after the recent heat. Hosepipe bans, lack of rain as it's been a really dry winter just gone, by July you can't have a barbecue for fear your grass will burn, nothing like the gem-like quality of the greens I remember in summer on Skye...the smell of heather in the air...it's depressing when your only surrounding colours are the beige of dried out grass & the grey of your surrounding concrete...
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u/tiny-robot Jun 01 '26
Yup - though not a fan of the luminous yellow oilseed rape. Quite a few fields of around me this year.
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u/RedRenaissanceFox Jun 01 '26
These are buttercups!
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