The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • The Birnam Oak

    May 11, 2015 /

    Did this majestic tree - or the forest in which it stood - inspire Shakespeare with an idea for 'Macbeth'?

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    The ancient oak woods of Taynish

    July 2, 2015

    Rain

    June 13, 2018

    Burnet rose

    July 12, 2021
  • Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015 /

    With angelic buds and evil thorns, the hawthorn stands at the threshold of the Underworld

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    The holly bears the crown

    November 26, 2013

    The ivy green

    November 20, 2022

    The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016
  • Bluebell enchantment

    April 16, 2015 /

    As our woods start to shimmer with a heavenly blue haze, I'm looking at some of the folklore attached to these beautiful flowers

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    Rosebay willowherb

    August 25, 2017

    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    A festival of fungi

    November 2, 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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