The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe
  • Looking for a fairy portal

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
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016 /

    Fluttering on impossibly slender stalks, aspen leaves whisper a message that seems to flow from the Earth itself

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    The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016

    The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013

    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    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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    The fragrance of juniper

    November 29, 2015

    The darkness of the yew

    October 26, 2014

    Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017
  • British trees,  Wildlife & Nature

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013 /

    The mountain ash is one of our best-loved native trees: beautiful in every season, with more than a hint of magic.

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    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016

    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022

"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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