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
  • 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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    Skye’s ‘coral beach’

    March 29, 2014

    Cockshut – lost in the shadows of twilight

    April 8, 2013

    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021
  • 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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    Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017

    The darkness of the yew

    October 26, 2014

    The fragrance of juniper

    November 29, 2015

"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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