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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    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021

    Heath milkwort

    August 12, 2012
  • 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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    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

    The spirit of the alder

    August 23, 2015
  • Bluebell enchantment

    April 16, 2015 /

    As our woods start to shimmer with a heavenly blue haze, I'm looking at some of the folklore attached to these beautiful flowers

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    Looking for catkins at Ballachuan

    January 22, 2023

    A walk to Barnakill

    October 9, 2021

    12 Trees in Autumn

    October 1, 2017
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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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