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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    Back to the Garvellachs

    October 1, 2024

    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015

    The old pinewoods in Glen Orchy

    October 17, 2025
  • 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 ivy green

    November 20, 2022

    Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017

    The spirit of the alder

    August 23, 2015
  • 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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    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    The Fortingall Yew: symbol of eternity

    March 26, 2014

    The ivy green

    November 20, 2022
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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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