The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • 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 Dark Green Fritillary

    November 5, 2013

    The darkness of the yew

    October 26, 2014

    The Anemone of Passiontide

    April 6, 2012
  • Snowdrops: welcome signs of spring

    February 21, 2013 /

    Nothing raises your spirits in late winter quite like a carpet of snowdrops. Spring can't be far away!

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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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