The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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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
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Lesser celandine: greeting the sun

    March 15, 2016 /

    Star-like flowers of pure yellow welcome the first spring sunshine

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    Lady’s smock

    June 2, 2013

    The Fortingall Yew: symbol of eternity

    March 26, 2014

    One of those beaches

    September 8, 2020
  • Wildlife & Nature

    The primrose: herald of spring

    March 6, 2014 /

    In March, the sweet yellow heads of primroses start to appear in the hedgerows. As one of the first signs of spring, they make a heartwarming sight!

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    Ivy-leaved toadflax

    June 9, 2015

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

    Autumn colours in Killiecrankie

    October 18, 2015
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Windflowers – tears of Aphrodite

    May 17, 2013 /

    According to a Greek legend, wood anemones - or windflowers - sprang up where the tears of Aphrodite fell. A lovely story, although she must have wept quite a lot, poor girl!

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    The wild pansy, or heartsease

    March 31, 2014

    A walk to Barnakill

    October 9, 2021

    Back to Ballachuan

    September 10, 2018
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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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