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 darkness of the yew

    October 26, 2014

    The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013

    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014
  • 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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    Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014

    Glen Lonan: ‘The Road of the Kings’

    March 24, 2014

    Dunollie Castle in Oban Bay

    April 10, 2012
  • 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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    In a nutshell: the Linlithgow Palace fountain

    May 14, 2014

    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018

    Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’

    July 20, 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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