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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

You know, there's an old Scottish saying.

When gorse is in season, kissing is in fashion.

Which is a joke of sorts because gorse is always in season. It's always in

flour all year round. It's native to Scotland. It's a prickly evergreen shrub which produces bright

yellow flowers that smell of coconut. It burns so hot than in the old days it was used to fuel

baker's ovens and farmers used to cut it down and grind it up in special mills and use it as animal feed.

So it's useful and Bonnie, but in the wrong place it can be a complete pest.

I'm Mark Stephen and this is the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

The other day I met up with several Aberdeen City Council Rangers and

umpteen volunteers who were all grimly determined to root out masses of gorse bushes in a place

called Scotston Moor. I spoke first to the man with the plan, Ranger Jack Elphinstone.

Right now we're in the middle of a gorseburn activity at the Scottson we're at local nature reserve and currently we're cutting our way into the site because the high winds have actually brought down some twigs and trees in front of where we're trying to get in. So I mean literally this is so densely packed with gorse. They're actually having to saw their way in we are yes there used to be a

nice little cut-through point that we could sneak in to get to the work site but um yeah over winter it seems

like it's closed up my name is Alan Marsden I am one of the volunteers here.

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