The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

  • About The Hazel Tree
  • Books
  • Contact
  • About The Hazel Tree
  • Books
  • Contact

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
  • History

    Culross Palace: glowing with splendour

    June 14, 2016 /

    Its walls the colour of saffron, Culross Palace beckons you into a 17th-century world of cobbled streets and quaint townhouses

    Read More

    You May Also Like

    Dunchraigaig: the darkness of time

    October 18, 2013

    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012

    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019
  • Wildlife & Nature

    The trees of Dollar Glen

    August 25, 2014 /

    At Dollar Glen in Clackmannanshire, a steep-sided gorge contains an emerald world where the trees bend their mossy branches to the water

    Read More

    You May Also Like

    Trespassing

    February 6, 2018

    Bird’s foot trefoil

    August 2, 2014

    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019
  • History

    A sport for kings at Falkland Palace

    June 7, 2014 /

    What was the exciting sport enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots? And just how did I end up playing it myself?

    Read More

    You May Also Like

    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017

    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    In a nutshell: Cardoness Castle

    February 13, 2016
12

"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
All content - © 2022 Jo Woolf - Ashe Theme by Royal-Flush