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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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    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

    Birdsong and light

    January 31, 2026

    Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull – a mystery re-exhumed

    August 21, 2022
  • 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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    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016
  • 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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    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    The fragrance of juniper

    November 29, 2015
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