The Hazel Tree

The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Bird’s foot trefoil

    August 2, 2014 /

    Affectionately called 'hen and chickens' or 'bacon and eggs', the flowers of bird's foot trefoil light up sand dunes, heathland and rocky shores

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    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022

    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    The harebell

    March 2, 2012
  • In a nutshell: the daisy or ‘day’s eye’

    May 31, 2014 /

    Known as the 'day's eye', because the flowers open only in full sunlight and close up again at dusk. Perhaps we should feel guilty about mowing their heads off!

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    Remembering the magic of mistletoe

    December 8, 2019

    The plants of Dollar Glen

    September 15, 2014

    The marsh fritillary

    June 26, 2013
  • Early Purple Orchid

    May 26, 2014 /

    With spikes of the richest, deepest magenta and leaves that are strangely blotched with purple, this is one show-stopping flower!

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    Leafburst

    April 14, 2020

    New book: Voices of the Earth

    September 2, 2025

    Burnet rose

    July 12, 2021
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