The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • The dark mill of Coilebar

    August 25, 2018 /

    A centuries-old mill in the heart of Knapdale Forest... and a refuge for a woman fleeing for her life

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    The Stone of Scone

    July 12, 2012

    Carnassarie Castle in Kilmartin Glen

    April 6, 2018

    Scotland’s haunted castles: would you be spooked?

    October 10, 2013
  • The Hazel Tree – now on the west coast!

    January 31, 2018 /

    A new home for us, and for The Hazel Tree, on the coast of Argyll

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    Beeches in Sutherland's Grove

    October 5, 2016

    The ivy green

    November 20, 2022

    Calanais

    June 29, 2025
  • Early summer gold

    June 12, 2015 /

    Walking around Taynish woods in the early summer sunshine, I was reminded of these words by the American poet Robert Frost. The newly-emerged leaves of the oak trees were making the hillside glow with a rich gold.   It won’t last long – every day will see them turn a slightly deeper green, as summer gathers pace – but while it lasts, it is pure magic. “Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.” Robert Frost

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    A Christmas poem

    December 19, 2014

    ‘Song of the trees’

    December 14, 2017

    A poem for Easter

    April 2, 2015

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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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