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

    Ballachuan hazel wood

    May 11, 2016 /

    I've never walked through a woodland quite like this one: the ancient hazel wood of Ballachuan on the island of Seil

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    August 25, 2017

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    August 23, 2015

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    June 21, 2019
  • 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 fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016

    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

"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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