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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    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013

    Skye’s ‘coral beach’

    March 29, 2014

    Golden saxifrage

    April 6, 2018
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Trespassing

    February 6, 2018 /

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

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    Honeysuckle

    September 6, 2021

    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019

    Skye’s ‘coral beach’

    March 29, 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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    The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013

    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013

    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 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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