The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • The ancient oak woods of Taynish

    July 2, 2015 /

    A landscape that is a living piece of Scotland's heritage: these oak woods have been growing in Knapdale for 7,000 years

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    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    12 Trees in Autumn

    October 1, 2017

    So many birds!

    May 7, 2020
  • A new treasure: ‘Trees and How They Grow’ by G Clarke Nuttall

    May 25, 2015 /

    At a show last weekend I picked up this gorgeous old book from a second-hand book stall.  Written by Gertrude Clarke Nuttall, it’s called ‘Trees And How They Grow’ and is dated 1913. Inside are 15 colour plates called ‘autochromes’ and 134 black-and-white photographs.  A total of 24 species of trees are described in detail – among them alder, hornbeam, larch, poplar, horse chestnut, willow, wayfaring-tree – and the natural history is mixed with wonderful legends and folklore. This book is in fact a natural history specimen in its own right, because someone has collected leaves from the trees and pressed them carefully in the relevant chapters.  These are now alarmingly fragile, especially the sprig of lime which still has…

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    Diarmuid and Grainne: a boar hunt and a tragic love story in Glen Lonan

    November 22, 2019

    Ossian, Fingal and the Falls of Lora

    July 19, 2023

    A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap

    July 19, 2020
  • 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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    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015

    Wood sorrel

    April 6, 2013

    The plants of Dollar Glen

    September 15, 2014
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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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