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
  • Geology

    Ossian’s Cave in Glen Coe

    November 26, 2015 /

    Was a legendary warrior born in this dark and inaccessible cave? Age-old stories woven into our landscape often hold the most magic...

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    Fossils at Carsaig Bay

    September 18, 2015

    Celestine: crystals as blue as the sky

    April 19, 2014

    Celebrating the texture and colour of rocks

    June 12, 2018
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015 /

    For their valuable source of food and their versatile building material, hazel trees have been prized since the dawn of time. But hazel nuts are believed to contain wisdom, and a little bit of magic as well...

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    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019

    The darkness of the yew

    October 26, 2014

    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015
  • Geology

    Coastal relics from the last Ice Age

    April 14, 2014 /

    A natural arch and sea stack left high and dry after the ice retreated... with links to a warrior of Celtic legend

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    A surprise find on Seacliff beach

    August 13, 2014

    Celebrating the texture and colour of rocks

    June 12, 2018

    Enhydro agate – a secret water chamber

    January 6, 2014

"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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