The Hazel Tree

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  • The Fortingall Yew: symbol of eternity

    March 26, 2014 /

    This yew tree in a Perthshire churchyard may be 5,000 years old: it's astounding to think how much human history it has witnessed in its lifetime.

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    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    The Dark Green Fritillary

    November 5, 2013

    The Treshnish Isles

    July 5, 2021
  • The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014 /

    Continuing my series on British trees, we're heading up into the Highlands to stand beneath a beautiful Scots pine...

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    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015

    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022
  • The holly bears the crown

    November 26, 2013 /

    Glowing with colour when the year is at its darkest, holly was once thought to symbolise immortality

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    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015

    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019

    The ivy green

    November 20, 2022
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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