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
  • British trees,  Latest Feature,  Wildlife & Nature

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022 /

    The tree of dark magic, whose brilliant white blossoms are among the first to appear in spring

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    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013

    The fragrance of juniper

    November 29, 2015

    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014
  • Latest Feature,  Wildlife & Nature

    Leafburst

    April 14, 2020 /

    A gentle wander around some of the beautiful trees that are putting forth fresh leaves in the spring sunshine

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    Dunaverty and St Columba’s Footprints

    November 29, 2020

    Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022

    Finding the Faery Isles

    October 27, 2019
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019 /

    A guardian of half-forgotten places, the elder's magic is both old and dark...

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    The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013

    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 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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