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,  Wildlife & Nature

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016 /

    Fluttering on impossibly slender stalks, aspen leaves whisper a message that seems to flow from the Earth itself

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    The holly bears the crown

    November 26, 2013

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013
  • Wildlife & Nature

    The Birnam Oak: in the presence of greatness

    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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    Trees of winter

    January 2, 2016

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

    August 15, 2021

    Cherry galls on oak leaves

    November 18, 2013

"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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