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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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    Meadowsweet

    August 16, 2019

    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    The wild pansy, or heartsease

    March 31, 2014
  • 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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    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013

    Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017

    The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013
  • 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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    The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013

    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013
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