The Hazel Tree

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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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    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    A December walk through Ballachuan hazel wood

    December 7, 2020

    The darkness of the yew

    October 26, 2014
  • 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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    St Mary’s College in St Andrews

    September 23, 2014

    Winter trees in Glen Roy

    December 17, 2025

    Dunollie Castle in Oban Bay

    April 10, 2012
  • 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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    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019
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