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  • Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017 /

    Often seen as an intruder in old woodlands, the sycamore still deserves a second glance for its beauty - and older specimens could tell a tale or two about bloodshed and drama!

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    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016

    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023
  • Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    Orkney: St Magnus’ Cathedral, Kirkwall

    November 27, 2023

    St Fillan and Glen Dochart

    July 31, 2011

    Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull

    May 2, 2021
  • The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016 /

    The ash is a beguiling tree, elegant in all seasons, and mother to a host of legends

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    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023

    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013

    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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