The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • The Birnam Oak

    May 11, 2015 /

    Did this majestic tree - or the forest in which it stood - inspire Shakespeare with an idea for 'Macbeth'?

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    Finding the Faery Isles

    October 27, 2019

    The Hill o’ Many Stanes

    April 10, 2025

    Back to the Garvellachs

    October 1, 2024
  • Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015 /

    With angelic buds and evil thorns, the hawthorn stands at the threshold of the Underworld

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    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015
  • 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 ivy green

    November 20, 2022

    The holly bears the crown

    November 26, 2013

    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013
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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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