The Hazel Tree

The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • The Birnam Oak

    May 11, 2015 /

    Did this majestic tree - or the forest in which it stood - inspire Shakespeare with an idea for 'Macbeth'?

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    Early Purple Orchid

    May 26, 2014

    Autumn colours in Killiecrankie

    October 18, 2015

    Leafburst

    April 14, 2020
  • Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015 /

    With angelic buds and evil thorns, the hawthorn stands at the threshold of the Underworld

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    The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016

    The spirit of the alder

    August 23, 2015

    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013
  • Bluebell enchantment

    April 16, 2015 /

    As our woods start to shimmer with a heavenly blue haze, I'm looking at some of the folklore attached to these beautiful flowers

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    The holly bears the crown

    November 26, 2013

    Finding the Faery Isles

    October 27, 2019

    A festival of fungi

    November 2, 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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