The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Windflowers – tears of Aphrodite

    May 17, 2013 /

    According to a Greek legend, wood anemones - or windflowers - sprang up where the tears of Aphrodite fell. A lovely story, although she must have wept quite a lot, poor girl!

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  • Wood sorrel

    April 6, 2013 /

    This delicate little woodland dweller should soon be opening out its blooms in the spring sunshine.

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    Common butterwort

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    The fire of the ash

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    Leafburst

    April 14, 2020
    New book

    "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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