The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Early Purple Orchid

    May 26, 2014 /

    With spikes of the richest, deepest magenta and leaves that are strangely blotched with purple, this is one show-stopping flower!

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    Back to Ballachuan

    September 10, 2018

    A December walk through Ballachuan hazel wood

    December 7, 2020

    Lady’s smock

    June 2, 2013
  • Book review: ‘The New Sylva’

    May 7, 2014 /

    In 1664, horticulturalist John Evelyn published 'Sylva', a comprehensive study of Britain's trees; and in 2014, to mark the 350th anniversary, a modern-day version has been created. This is a book to cherish for generations to come!

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    The Kyle of Tongue: a battle, a hero’s grave and a cow with a gold coin

    September 15, 2025

    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021

    Iona: Dun I and the Well of Eternal Youth

    May 1, 2023
  • The wild pansy, or heartsease

    March 31, 2014 /

    The endearing little flowers of heartsease were known to Shakespeare as 'Love-in-idleness'...

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    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023

    Heath milkwort

    August 12, 2012

    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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