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
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Fresh leaves in old woodlands

    May 8, 2018 /

    The woodlands are bursting into leaf, and spring flowers are everywhere. It's hard to stay indoors...

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    Common butterwort

    July 9, 2012

    Heath milkwort

    August 12, 2012

    Three favourite woodlands for autumn colour

    September 17, 2017
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Trespassing

    February 6, 2018 /

    Renewing my love of hazels, and the spells that they weave...

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    The dog rose

    August 15, 2015

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    Snowdrops in January

    January 10, 2014
  • 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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    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016

    The darkness of the yew

    October 26, 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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