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  • 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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    The ivy green

    November 20, 2022

    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019

    Piddocks – anything but boring

    August 21, 2013
  • 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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    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022

    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016
  • For the love of mistletoe

    November 30, 2014 /

    What lies behind our long-standing affection for mistletoe's pure white berries?

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    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    So many birds!

    May 7, 2020

    The old pinewoods in Glen Orchy

    October 17, 2025
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