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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    Ivy-leaved toadflax

    June 9, 2015

    A writing update

    July 12, 2024

    Autumn colours in Killiecrankie

    October 18, 2015
  • 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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    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015

    The spirit of the alder

    August 23, 2015

    Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017
  • 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 Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 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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