The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

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
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Wildlife & Nature

    Finding the Faery Isles

    October 27, 2019 /

    Is there some ancient magic about these tiny wooded islets in Loch Sween?

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    Prehistoric rock art at Achnabreck

    April 5, 2016

    Dunchraigaig: the darkness of time

    October 18, 2013

    Glen More and the headless horseman

    May 16, 2015
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Back to Ballachuan

    September 10, 2018 /

    Hazel nuts and all kinds of weird and colourful fungi litter the floor of this ancient hazel wood

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    Marsh marigold: the yellow plant of Beltane

    April 29, 2016

    A festival of fungi

    November 2, 2013

    Heath spotted-orchid

    June 14, 2012
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Ballachuan hazel wood

    May 11, 2016 /

    I've never walked through a woodland quite like this one: the ancient hazel wood of Ballachuan on the island of Seil

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    Cherry galls on oak leaves

    November 18, 2013

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016

    Meadowsweet

    August 16, 2019
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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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