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  • Bluebell enchantment

    April 16, 2015 /

    As our woods start to shimmer with a heavenly blue haze, I'm looking at some of the folklore attached to these beautiful flowers

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    The holly bears the crown

    November 26, 2013
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    March 6, 2026

    12 Trees in Autumn

    October 1, 2017
  • Clan MacThomas and the Clach na Coileach

    March 30, 2015 /

    Four dead men and a sackful of live chickens… I'm just waiting for someone to suggest foul play!

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    Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull – a mystery re-exhumed

    August 21, 2022

    Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022

    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016
  • 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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    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022

    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019
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