It has loamy and sandy soils with naturally high groundwater and a peaty surface. A smoky, peaty or peppery whisky may go well with oysters and smoked fish. It produces an especially honey flavoured whisky, and less peaty than most Island Whiskies. Potassium deficiency is also common in chalky or peaty soils with a low clay content. The whisky has a peaty/smoky flavour. Lowlands have acidic peaty soil with a low fertility. It likes moist soils, particularly rich ones, and acid peaty loams. It grows in peaty soils, shrubby areas, moss and lichen tundra. It survives in wet sandy and peaty soils. It grows in sandy, peaty or clay soils around sandstone or ironstone. Carbonera in Roman times meant marshy, peaty and woody land. The weather is largely wet, cold and extremely windy; the soil peaty, acidic and impoverished. It grows best in fertile, slightly acid, peaty, well-drained soils. Large areas are covered with larch forests with peaty and peaty-gley overmoistened soils.