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
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019 /

    A guardian of half-forgotten places, the elder's magic is both old and dark...

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    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017 /

    Often seen as an intruder in old woodlands, the sycamore still deserves a second glance for its beauty - and older specimens could tell a tale or two about bloodshed and drama!

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    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013

    The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013
  • 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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    Fresh leaves in old woodlands

    May 8, 2018

    The Treshnish Isles

    July 5, 2021

    Windflowers – tears of Aphrodite

    May 17, 2013
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"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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