The Hazel Tree

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  • Lady’s smock

    June 2, 2013 /

    In the spring sunshine, look out for this delicate wayside plant which is 'painting the meadows with delight'!

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    The Hill o’ Many Stanes

    April 10, 2025

    Bluebell enchantment

    April 16, 2015

    Lesser celandine: greeting the sun

    March 15, 2016
  • Windflowers – tears of Aphrodite

    May 17, 2013 /

    According to a Greek legend, wood anemones - or windflowers - sprang up where the tears of Aphrodite fell. A lovely story, although she must have wept quite a lot, poor girl!

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    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    Three favourite woodlands for autumn colour

    September 17, 2017

    Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017
  • The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013 /

    Beeches evoke the true beauty of the British landscape, with their majestic shape and vivid autumn colours.

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    The holly bears the crown

    November 26, 2013

    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013

    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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