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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    The plants of Dollar Glen

    September 15, 2014

    In a nutshell: the daisy or ‘day’s eye’

    May 31, 2014

    Orkney: the Ring of Brodgar

    December 21, 2024
  • 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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    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016

    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015
  • The wild pansy, or heartsease

    March 31, 2014 /

    The endearing little flowers of heartsease were known to Shakespeare as 'Love-in-idleness'...

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    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023

    Lochbuie Stone Circle and Moy Castle, Isle of Mull

    January 13, 2024

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 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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