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,  Latest Feature,  Wildlife & Nature

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022 /

    The tree of dark magic, whose brilliant white blossoms are among the first to appear in spring

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    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016

    The spirit of the alder

    August 23, 2015
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Scottish castles

    Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022 /

    History and folklore are interwoven in this crumbling but evocative ruin

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    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018

    Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar

    March 2, 2012

    Tullibardine Chapel

    September 1, 2016
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Wildlife & Nature

    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021 /

    What's so special about this rocky hillside on the shore of Loch Sween?

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    The Ballymeanoch stones, Kilmartin Glen

    March 13, 2016

    A bridge to the past in the Sma’ Glen

    April 12, 2013

    The Battle of Dunnichen

    May 20, 2013
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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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