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  • Cockshut – lost in the shadows of twilight

    April 8, 2013 /

    The origin of 'cockshut', an age-old term for dusk, lies in the secretive habits of woodcock...

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    Enchanter’s nightshade

    July 4, 2019

    A walk to St Columba’s Bay

    May 4, 2025

    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014
  • Wood sorrel

    April 6, 2013 /

    This delicate little woodland dweller should soon be opening out its blooms in the spring sunshine.

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    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023

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

    August 15, 2021

    A walk to St Columba’s Bay

    May 4, 2025
  • The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013 /

    The birch is the tree of love, fertility, new beginnings... and broomsticks

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    The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013

    The holly bears the crown

    November 26, 2013

    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015
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