The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe
  • Looking for a fairy portal

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
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    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 spirit of the alder

    August 23, 2015

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

    The fragrance of juniper

    November 29, 2015
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    The fragrance of juniper

    November 29, 2015 /

    Since the end of the last Ice Age, juniper has been colonising open areas of land and offering shelter to all kinds of wildlife. Now, it looks like it could do with a little help...

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    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    The spirit of the alder

    August 23, 2015 /

    Lover of riverbanks and boggy places, the alder forms a close bond between earth and water. No wonder our ancestors revered its magic

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    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016

    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013

    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015
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"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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