The Hazel Tree

The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe
  • Looking for a fairy portal

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017 /

    Often seen as an intruder in old woodlands, the sycamore still deserves a second glance for its beauty - and older specimens could tell a tale or two about bloodshed and drama!

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    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    The spirit of the alder

    August 23, 2015

    The darkness of the yew

    October 26, 2014
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016 /

    Fluttering on impossibly slender stalks, aspen leaves whisper a message that seems to flow from the Earth itself

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    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013

    The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016 /

    The ash is a beguiling tree, elegant in all seasons, and mother to a host of legends

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    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

    The spirit of the alder

    August 23, 2015
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"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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