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
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Devil’s-bit scabious

    August 24, 2016 /

    These pretty blooms of late summer are an important food source for butterflies and bees

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    A festival of fungi

    November 2, 2013

    The primrose: herald of spring

    March 6, 2014

    The darkness of the yew

    October 26, 2014
  • Wildlife & Nature

    The Dark Green Fritillary

    November 5, 2013 /

    This lovely butterfly was seen dancing around the wild flowers on the island of Lismore in August.

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    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    Golden saxifrage

    April 6, 2018

    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013
  • Wildlife & Nature

    The marsh fritillary

    June 26, 2013 /

    The ancient woodlands of Taynish in Argyll are one of the last British strongholds of this pretty little butterfly.

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    Bluebell enchantment

    April 16, 2015

    The Anemone of Passiontide

    April 6, 2012

    Solstice greetings

    December 20, 2021
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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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