The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

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

    Three favourite woodlands for autumn colour

    September 17, 2017 /

    Looking forward to the glorious colours of these woodlands in Argyll and Perthshire

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    Lady’s smock

    June 2, 2013

    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    The Anemone of Passiontide

    April 6, 2012
  • 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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    Rain

    June 13, 2018

    Devil’s-bit scabious

    August 24, 2016

    The trees of Dollar Glen

    August 25, 2014
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Dunkeld Cathedral: Scotland’s sacred heart

    January 10, 2014 /

    Can 1200 years of worship leave a lasting trace? Dunkeld Cathedral has witnessed warfare and destruction, but its atmosphere is one of enduring serenity.

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    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019

    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012

    "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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