I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout. The Song of Wandering Aengus (1st stanza) I've always found this poem literally enchanting. The symbolism behind the hazel wood adds to the mystery.
Oh my goodness what a poem. When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossom in her hair Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air. Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
There's this interesting notion that mesolithic Europeans were oblivious to the concepts of gardening, horticulture, and agriculture despite it being glaringly obvious that large-scale forest management had to have taken place to produce the immense amount of hazel used. It wasn't only eaten, it was used in equally large scale to produce fykes - but apparently there's some embedded statism in having to see "pre-ahricultural" people as just haphazardly bumbling around oblivious to their ability to shape their surroundings or even having the slightest understanding of that - so pretty happy to see a video like yours! 😄 Lots of love from Denmark
Hej! Totally agree, that’s a very good point. I was sorry to hear about your natty dragon treasury building burning down. Loved cycling past that when I lived in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
@@TheStoryCrow Aww! Thank you! Let's see what comes out of the rebuilding efforts - there's a general consensus that what you saw biking by should be faithfully restored. Some very symbolically important, but not very.. good! pieces of art were lost. Hopefully they'll revamp the interior, and the backside so it offers just a tint of modern amenities, and not merely the bad odour of very cheap solutions 🤭 h I was the neighbour of a very nice lady who had to go there for meetings on a regular basis, and she absolutely hated the smell, the bad 70s synthetic rugs, and the appalling interior "design" 😆
I’m pleased they’re restoring the roof historically. Re the interior, personally I always thought it a shame that when you looked in there it was just pale men in suits looking at monitors and not, I don’t know, dwarves or goblins examining gems and weighing piles of skat. Which sounds different when you put it in an English sentence 🤣 💰 💩
I've 'rescued' a hazel from my front garden and planted him in a pot, after a year of sulking he's finally growing well and I look forward to working with him properly! Tiny still, was probably only a year or less when I dug him out 😊
" Sulking"...yes, I bought a blue pine a year or so back and planted him in a huge pot, ( knowing I must find a better spot in the ground for him) he occasionally tells me " Get me out of here"😂.
I love this series on trees so much! It has long been an interest of mine. I really appreciate that you cover both the practical/agricultural and the magical/folkloric, and point out where they overlap and influence each other. Thank you so much!
When young i used to be able to dowse when i was a kid. I remember walking up my uncle's path and the tip of the Y started pulling towards the ground. Then stopped as i kept walking. My gran and uncle were amazed. Ive never tried since then, now I'm a pensioner. And ex forestry commission worker. Thanks for the lovely video.
I did that when I was thirteen,without knowing where all the drains were in the garden,I traced the pipework,&then I held it over the pond&it swiftly rose upwards&broke.If someone had told me this could happen,without having tried it myself,then I wouldn't have believed it.Hazel is chosen for this because it's a relatively flexible wood,but it can be done with thin steel rods,the steel rods cross when there's water.
My mother used to make us cut a hazel switch and beat us with it. I always loved when autumn came and we could eat the nuts, they were so sweet and milky, I loved the cool shadows by the pond where they grew.
I have 4 American Hazel bushes I planted as a wind break on the edge of my yard a couple of years ago. I never knew all the lore around these little nut bushes. Fascinating.
This was incredibly informative and fascinating! My husband just trimmed and pruned one of our Hazels the other day so now I am dead keen to go raid the pile of branches to make wattyls, a dowsing rod and wood for carving! Thank you so much, keep up the great work!
I live in Portugal where most people in the country have their own wells or boreholes to supply water. The engineering companies that drill the boreholes use dowsers to decide where to drill.
@@TheStoryCrow There's so much more to this that's obfuscated and ignored by science and pharma. They already know they can't *patent* a 'hedgerow', OR a 'weed' OR a 'tree'. 😊 That vexe$ them deeply.
You probably could have used a slightly different variant that didn’t sound Arabic (someone mentioned Haslam). That’s such a burden for a person to carry.
People don't choose their name. Their names choose the parents. Your name is already written in The Book. Abba wrote your name before the begining. If It's not in The Book then He didn't write it that Book!
What a delight the YT algorithm threw me this morning! I have a Hazel stang, topped with forked deer antler from when I lived in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Enjoyed the storytelling and information... subscribed☺💜💫
I would love to see a video where you talk all about how Mother Nature tells us how to utilize her plants and such. That kind of stuff is fascinating to me.
Hey man, just wanted to take a second to thank you for you´re videos, they always, in addition to filling my brains with loads of lovely stories and interesting information, lift my mood and remind me of my time living in scotland. Thank you so much!
Hey man! Thanks so much for saying that, that’s why I make the channel. Means a lot to hear it’s appreciated 🙏☺️ I miss Scotland too, so beautiful. Seems like a world away even though it’s only the other end of this small island, for me anyway 😂
I loved gathering Hazelnuts as a child. I was alway grateful whilst collecting the prized nuts. I had a natural love for the Hazelnut trees, (bushes), and the plants' stages that produced the wonderful nuts! Still my favorite nut, flavoring, etc. I adore Frangelico Liquor with it's bold Hazelnut taste including subtle hints of chocolate. Whhat a delight. Today, i pay homage to this wonderful creation. Take care, all!
Learn something new with every story you tell and when I’m walking my dogs around the beautiful lakes which I’m lucky enough to live near I’m looking at my surroundings with new eyes 😊thankyou
I had a feeling that there was some story behind Hazel trees, which I planted 3 last year, but I never knew how much of a history, and wonderful folk lore was about them. Thank you for sharing this, I’m glad I saw your YT channel pop up. New subscriber From the Great Southern Land 🇦🇺.
First time finding your channel! My home is in Arkansas...in The US. Specifically, I spent most of my formative years (and then some) in The Ozarks Mountains. I consider myself to be Hill Folk. My parents began building our 1st house in 1971 and because of its location, a well needed to be dug. Even though a 'ancient mechanical apparatus' would do the drilling. I distinctly remember a community friend divining for the water. I could not tell you if he was using Hazel, but that was where the drilling took place and water was found. It was not viewed as something out of the ordinary or magic. Thanks for your time🌞
Hey, welcome aboard! Thanks for sharing this. I love hearing stories of older generations. Yes, a lot of old ways are not really considered magic or out of the ordinary are they. It’s just how people did things.
Ich lebe in einer kleinen Stadt in Hessen, die 783 zum erstenmal urkundlich erwähnt wurde. Tatsächlich ist sie aber vermutlich viel, viel älter. - Heute heißt sie Aßlar, was von "Hasselare" kommen soll. Ein heiliger, von Haselnüssen einefasster Platz der Kelten. Dort steht heute noch die evangelische Kirche. Und im Stadtwappen prankt noch immer die Haselnuss.
A real woodland hazelnut faery too ! Squirrels get all mine and voles get the ones they drop, often a source of self sown if the vole does not eat its stash .! Super useful for free canes that often sprout and you can urban plant them in denuded areas . They apparently have better nut harvests if different varieties are near by .
Ah, didn’t know that. Yes the squirrels get em round here too. Lucky I know a magic spot in waterfall country, wales, that’s flooded with nuts by the pools 🏴 🌳
Where I live, in North California, there were Hawthorn growing when I got here, now there’s even more. I’ve been looking into Hazel, and the native California hazel at that, and was researching the kind of terrain to plant in. So I’m grateful you mentioned a more open forested area, where it can get enough sun. I’ve really appreciated your contribution, thank you.
Oh and make sure they get lots of water, obviously 😅 hazel is thirsty. It’s wetter then California over here - but maybe your type is better in dryer conditions 🤷♂️
Former plumber and current farmer here, dousing rods are fun if you have plenty of time to waste and don't mind coming away short handed. Maps and following the wet are far more efficient ways to find a water leak.
I grew up in the Ozarks in USA. My Dad witched wells for people, but he used a forked peach branch. He was always successful. We never thought of it as witchcraft. When my 8th grade teacher said that it was, I was devastated. My ancestors were Scotch-Irish. Perhaps this practice was passed down.
My aunt dowsed for a new well on their farm, and the driller hit an artisian water system, which is quite dramatic until they get it capped. It pumped white silt all over the lower yard, and overflowed into the little brook. It has never gone dry, but it has sulfur and makes the house smell.
Made some bows out of it, u just have to fire harden the belly, pretty decent bowwood, very easy to find good straight staves,50lbs can cast an arrow approx 200meters...I just recently started to build a stronger one❤
Yes brother it works, & that’s more than a fact it’s truth. But you understand this of course. But thanks for the video I’ve been really injoying your knowledge on these things.
'fascinating. I grew up in a hazelnut orchard in North Albany, Oregon on Palestine Hill. After that, I lived in the Hazelnut District in West Albany. Here's the best way to eat hazelnuts: Roast them on low heat for a couple of hours. Remove the husks by rubbing them together. Add butter and salt. This is very good for cardiovascular health. You can also coat them with chocolate.
Thank you for your video, you are an excellent storyteller. I love that you recognized our hazel tree as a shrub, yes that is correct! as a horticulturalist I appreciate that 😃 its small details like this that make a difference to the knowledge that you are presenting. so well done. I am also interested in our ancient lives on these isles, our ancestors are a diverse lot and Britain and to a lesser degree Ireland have been a melting pot of cultures religious practices etc. so absolutely may that continue moving forward, all should feel welcome here. I do feel you might be interested to delve into the term 'Celtic' ..... I discovered in my quest to reconnect with Celtic roots that the term is inaccurate being unfortunately misapplied by historians in the past and is not really useful to describe people of these islands! Perhaps it would be better if we reclaim the term Ancient Briton or Pretanni, a name the people of these islands would have likely recognized and identified as...Celts were( are) people of southern France/northern Spain, famous for sacking Rome. To the best of my knowledge, the diverse tribes of Britain/Ireland were not Celts in any shape or form, but of course there was cross pollination of ideas/people /technology/trade throughout out Europe. I found that updating the term Celt to ancient Briton has helped me to deeper understand the wisdom of these islands and remove barriers that we may have applied to ourselves.
Yes I agree re ancient Briton, but ‘Celtic’ is still used even in an academic context as an umbrella term covering a periods places and languages. It’s not ideal, but it’s just the way language has evolved. On another but related note I still prefer to call the early medieval the ‘dark ages’ it just sounds better 😂
@@TheStoryCrow I appreciate what you are saying about the umbrella term, I had the same perspective when someone questioned my use of the term Celtic, at the time I was discussing Celtic religion/spirituality. As you are saying this is how things have evolved with the use of the term. Sure we can accept this. But I understand things to be shifting especially in academic sense ( but obviously there is lots of material using the original Celtic narrative) as this was an important part of our history/origins searching with an open mind for answers is useful and will shed new perspectives on our current evolution, I find it way more liberating to call us by our true name(s) and embrace that Identity, rather that using a generic term. after all the facts haven't changed re religion, wisdom or culture of these islands just the label Celtic. Sorry I don't want to bombard you on this ....I have made my point and you have responded so thank you😀! In the meantime keep up the good work, excellent content thank you.
by the way you may be interested I found a German craftsman who make replicas of ancient artifacts, belt, buckles brooches and torcs among many other things. he has a website if you google 'replik shop' you will find it. some very interesting pieces with some real history to them.
Yes all good points, my problem with Pretanni or anything like that is that there’s no evidence Britons saw themselves as a unified people either, so it would be also inaccurate. That leaves us with individual tribal names, so I’d be a Dobunni, that’s quite fun, but it’s starts us down quite the rabbit hole 😂 I tend to stick with generic terms and then clarify when necessary. As a linguistic label, Celtic is appropriate to describe the British tribes, but it needs qualification depending on context as you point out 👍
I have been interested in our folklore throughout my life. These days I write stories primarily to amuse my friends and family, and draw heavily on the old lore, it is lovely to see a revival of the old ways. Incidentally, as to divining, I used to work on an old site in the high Pennines, and once when we were trying to locate a drainage pipe we knew was there somewhere, but unmarked, we all took to divining. Not just sticking to water, once the pipe was located we decided to find other things. Some were looking for metals/coins, but I was utterly unsuccessful, even when I held my rods pointing at the till, I got nothing. I'm not really interested in money, living as lightly as possible, so I jokingly suggested to the rods cake might be nice; I do like cake. The rods practically leapt out of my hands to drag me to the on site cafe 😂
I have only watched the first 5 frames but... great improvement, lovely warm colour. 👌🤓 [That was most interesting, thankee, I was wondering about dousing the other day, after unthinkingly poo-pooing a fellow doing it and catching myself there, to say: "Eh, thar's assuming there!" Hum-hum. Trouble is... though I do take your word for it - as you say, if people are paid to do it, it must work... I'd still like to test it for myself but that means digging a load of ruddy great holes to test if its right... which is rather a serious undertaking. Mmm. Anyhow, lovely insights there, your knowledge continues to amaze me, all the best, Jess. Oh PS. I have long had a love of the silver birch tree, and was rather taken aback to hear hazel described as the fairest of trees, since silver birch is so light and airy and perfect for skipping under... would love to see a run-down of the Silver Birch like this.]
@@TheStoryCrow Well, a bit of poo-pooing acts as manure upon the subject, nothing like being poo-pooed to make one dig in deep and reach for a hole in the canopy (to slightly overdo the metaphor! 😂)
Thanks for the insight. - from North Texas. Also: I'm a hand dude, and your hands are quite dandy *thumbs* unconscious intuition ---> as above, so below. Soooo cool
Your channel popped into my feed today. I read. I read a lot. Something I read a few years back came to mind while listening: do you know anything that might explain why warriors (Saxons and Viking) might mark off a challenge area with four hazel rods? The author does extensive research, so I've no reason to doubt her description of how the area was mark-stepping outside of the hazel rods was seen as admitting defeat/tapping out. But it was always hazel. Have you ever heard of this use, or ideas as to why?
That’s interesting. My guess, and it is only a guess, is that as a building material of houses the rods demarcate a kind of enclosed ritual space with an inside and an outside - and it’s own societal rules - like a dwelling. So stepping out is literally stepping outside in the cold. Could just be because hazel is straight and abundant too I suppose 🤷♂️ I tend to prefer symbolic interpretations because they’re more interesting 😅 thanks for sharing that, where did you read it?
In fact the Hazel is very easy to grow from the actual nut . The Hazel nut is quite expensive to buy in the autumn so I planted a few years ago , however the squirrels from the area so I can not gather enough for us .Grey Squirrels do not exist in the UK in ancient times as they were introduced during the Victorian period . In fact the Hazel looks quite presentable in Jan/Feb with catkins blowing in the wind which helps to polinate the very small red flowers
Is there a relationship between Hazel coppices and human habitation? I suspect this is really obscured now millenia later but in the mesolithic period would coppices occur where humans had passed through? In the USA the Johnny Appleseed folklore came about because frontiersmen traveling through discarding their applecores amongest other things created apple trees growing along the old paths and trails.
Yes I expect so, as hazel is such a common building material for wattle walls etc, there would be habitation nearby coppices. Very cool about Jonny Appleseed. That’s how apples and their folklore got to Europe from Central Asia!
Most of us have the copper dowsing rods or 2 bent copper pipes on our vans as a tradition sometimes the modern electric cat and genny finders don't pick thing up so out come the rods and often they do
I'm one who can divine water with a hazel wand, its said only 25% of people actually have the power to do so. I have found many a burst pipe or underground spring in the 50 years I have been doing it. The stronger the pull on the hazel wand the stronger the flow of water lies beneath, the only thing it can't determine is how deep down you have to dig before you hit an underground spring, but I can assure you it works...
Hard stuff, I love Hazels and in my garden there are growing a lot. The first tree I remember a Hazel on way to school. Also, the first tree I could recognize by smelling on its rind. But, I hope you can help me with an existencial question: My affinity to Mother Nature and trees especially Hazels causes me every December until March Mid time a lot of "hay fever" (among others), I am suffering sometimes like undergoing an influenza. Question: do you have any explanation for the fact that my immune system goes crazy with those trees which are registered from time on when Mammoths were still around the earth, "hazel and alder"? I am totally interested in ancient wisdom but the access is obviously closed. I would really appreciate one or more possible answers and may be a solution for opening the way (not the cognitive based more the hearty way and intuition) into more life - according to nature and so on. I hope to hearing some replies here on the portal, thanks for this amazing contribution and upgrading of my knowledge - says my heart!!!! greetings from Hesse - Germany - Crissy
Wow. What a strange time to have an allergic reaction, that doesn’t seem common you’re right. Perhaps gradual exposure? My own seasonal allergies tend to fluctuate over the course of life so maybe it’s a waiting game. Hopefully someone else can be more helpful! Good luck with your quest into plant intelligence and the imaginal realm! (A great book btw maybe that will provide an answer 🤔)
@@TheStoryCrow maybe I hadnot enough oxygen but which book do you recommend me? Or what does the last sentence or sentences mean! Thank you so much for your polite response, I am happy with your channel - ciao ciao Crissy
It’s called ‘plant intelligence and the imaginal realm’ about … well the intelligence and consciousness of plants. It’s by Steven buhner. But looking back on your comment it may not be relevant I don’t know, I just like the book 😂 thanks for supporting the channel 🙏☺️
@@TheStoryCrow thank you for such nice recommendation, I love plants and may be I ll get a little hint deeper, bye bye and all the best I love your channel, Crissy
A friend of a friend knew a bloke at work who, as a youth, used to douse a bit but had to give it up when he moved into a flat near a public swimming pool as his dousing equipment would all end up pointing to the wall nearest the pool.
You lost me at dousing but otherwise very interesting. Would be interesting to see a video on uses of these natural materials in ancient animal husbandry
@@TheStoryCrow I heard! And it just tickled my curiosity to delve even further! It made me think about keeping pigs and what people would make that would be strong enough to keep them in one place
@@TheStoryCrow Thank you. I just saw your reply (2 months later) I came back to watch the hazel story again. I am writing a novel for ages 8 and up Of course there has to be an antagonist! . Her motive--to be revealed-- I have been working on this project for seven years- I am on my third draft. Some day I hope to share it with you and the world
I just found this in my notes! I[[[You could also carry a hazel rod, a fathom and a half long, with a green hazel twig pushed into it. This cast invisibility over the holder (Baker 2011 [1969]: 72). (A fathom is approximately 1.8m, so that would be a rod 2.7m long!) Alternatively, carry hazelnuts in an orange pouch for invisibility (Harrington 2020: 67).]]]]
'Jack Temple, the Healer,' cut me a piece of Hazel from his planted Hazel trees at Byfleet. They grew by the carefully chosen welsh stones healing circle he had built there. Have had that bit of Hazel for 40 years. I dowse with pure silver pendulum and chain. The hazel sits in my left hand with a part of the original quartz wand I found, and intuitiviely took to Jack. That quartz lets one read the health levels in the pituitary, thymus, amygdulla, hypothalamus, in the brain. Who would have ever known...
Imagine having a hazel staff with holly on the tip walking through the woods and a row of deer both sides of the path all bow as they lead you to the forest god
@@TheStoryCrow - I know you have a yurt already, with a wood burning stove,, but they are popular. I used to own one, and got married in it. A traditional hand-fasting. I used to work for the RUclips Shaman. We made a video called 'coppicing wood to make a yurt' maybe 15 years ago. It is less than 5mins in length, and yet it has had over 14 thousand views! Maybe we made more videos on his channel about it, I cant remember, but there is huge interest!
Even the Vikings found the number 9 of great significance, As they believed that the cosmos had 9 World's that surrounded and hang from Yggdrasil ( the Gallows Tree) as they knew that a Woman's Pregnancy was 9 month's
Native to North America I think? I don’t know much about it, but I think it’s a very similar species. Not sure if ‘witch’ refers to witchcraft though. Maybe!
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
The Song of Wandering Aengus (1st stanza)
I've always found this poem literally enchanting. The symbolism behind the hazel wood adds to the mystery.
Oh my goodness what a poem.
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
You’re right it literally glistens with the mythic.
This reminds me of the fish girl of Labrador folklore, whose name is
‘She who wiggles nicely’
@@TheStoryCrow Thanks for putting the rest. I haven't sat with it for awhile.
@@TheStoryCrow I hope she is not wiggling because she is caught on a hook.
@@TheStoryCrow That is my favorite poem.❤❤❤
There's this interesting notion that mesolithic Europeans were oblivious to the concepts of gardening, horticulture, and agriculture despite it being glaringly obvious that large-scale forest management had to have taken place to produce the immense amount of hazel used. It wasn't only eaten, it was used in equally large scale to produce fykes - but apparently there's some embedded statism in having to see "pre-ahricultural" people as just haphazardly bumbling around oblivious to their ability to shape their surroundings or even having the slightest understanding of that - so pretty happy to see a video like yours! 😄 Lots of love from Denmark
Hej!
Totally agree, that’s a very good point.
I was sorry to hear about your natty dragon treasury building burning down. Loved cycling past that when I lived in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
@@TheStoryCrow Aww! Thank you!
Let's see what comes out of the rebuilding efforts - there's a general consensus that what you saw biking by should be faithfully restored. Some very symbolically important, but not very.. good! pieces of art were lost. Hopefully they'll revamp the interior, and the backside so it offers just a tint of modern amenities, and not merely the bad odour of very cheap solutions 🤭 h
I was the neighbour of a very nice lady who had to go there for meetings on a regular basis, and she absolutely hated the smell, the bad 70s synthetic rugs, and the appalling interior "design" 😆
I’m pleased they’re restoring the roof historically.
Re the interior, personally I always thought it a shame that when you looked in there it was just pale men in suits looking at monitors and not, I don’t know, dwarves or goblins examining gems and weighing piles of skat.
Which sounds different when you put it in an English sentence 🤣 💰 💩
Thank you again for your great wisdom. I love to listen to you x
You are so welcome 🙏☺️✨
It's nice to be able to hear this old lore, so much has been forgotten by our modern culture.
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I've 'rescued' a hazel from my front garden and planted him in a pot, after a year of sulking he's finally growing well and I look forward to working with him properly! Tiny still, was probably only a year or less when I dug him out 😊
" Sulking"...yes, I bought a blue pine a year or so back and planted him in a huge pot, ( knowing I must find a better spot in the ground for him) he occasionally tells me " Get me out of here"😂.
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I love this series on trees so much! It has long been an interest of mine. I really appreciate that you cover both the practical/agricultural and the magical/folkloric, and point out where they overlap and influence each other. Thank you so much!
I like a nice interweaving 😉
Thanks again my friend 🙏
When young i used to be able to dowse when i was a kid. I remember walking up my uncle's path and the tip of the Y started pulling towards the ground. Then stopped as i kept walking. My gran and uncle were amazed. Ive never tried since then, now I'm a pensioner. And ex forestry commission worker. Thanks for the lovely video.
I did that when I was thirteen,without knowing where all the drains were in the garden,I traced the pipework,&then I held it over the pond&it swiftly rose upwards&broke.If someone had told me this could happen,without having tried it myself,then I wouldn't have believed it.Hazel is chosen for this because it's a relatively flexible wood,but it can be done with thin steel rods,the steel rods cross when there's water.
My mother used to make us cut a hazel switch and beat us with it. I always loved when autumn came and we could eat the nuts, they were so sweet and milky, I loved the cool shadows by the pond where they grew.
This comment feels like a micro poem. ☺️ Thanks for sharing 🙏
Wonderful, a lovely tribute to the hazel 😊 I will cut a switch from my tree at the new moon
Remember to ask the trees permission 😉🌳🙏
@@TheStoryCrow oh I will! Thank you !
I have 4 American Hazel bushes I planted as a wind break on the edge of my yard a couple of years ago. I never knew all the lore around these little nut bushes. Fascinating.
I hope you can look at them with new eyes ☺️🌳
As a Hazel, thank you for this video! :)
This was incredibly informative and fascinating! My husband just trimmed and pruned one of our Hazels the other day so now I am dead keen to go raid the pile of branches to make wattyls, a dowsing rod and wood for carving! Thank you so much, keep up the great work!
Sounds like a happy day with hazel 🌳🙏☺️
I live in Portugal where most people in the country have their own wells or boreholes to supply water. The engineering companies that drill the boreholes use dowsers to decide where to drill.
There too eh? Interesting. Thank you 🙏
The army used *dowsers* in the world wars.
The military respected those dowsers' ability to 'find' -- where mere 'science' couldn't find a thing.
@@TheStoryCrow
There's so much more to this that's obfuscated and ignored by science and pharma.
They already know they can't *patent* a 'hedgerow', OR a 'weed'
OR a 'tree'.
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That vexe$ them deeply.
The same in parts of Cornwall,but thin steel rods are also used.
I named my son Haslem. Every one thinks it is Arabic but it is ancient anglo saxon. Hazel trees by the water.
You probably could have used a slightly different variant that didn’t sound Arabic (someone mentioned Haslam).
That’s such a burden for a person to carry.
@@thegreenmage6956 gross. I think it is lovely, Caroline
I think it’s a nice name ☺️
People don't choose their name. Their names choose the parents. Your name is already written in The Book. Abba wrote your name before the begining. If It's not in The Book then He didn't write it that Book!
Beautiful
What a wonderful video.. brilliantly done and so interesting.. thank you❤
Glad you enjoyed it 🌳☺️
Happy dowsing my babbers!
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This was really good. THANK YOU!
Thank you all your hard work! 🥰🥰 I sat in a grove of Hazel trees today for the first time. It was profound.
Our richness is our knowledge and abilities. Thanks for the reminder. A Wiccan month tree, I recalll
Well stated 🙏🌳✨
What a delight the YT algorithm threw me this morning! I have a Hazel stang, topped with forked deer antler from when I lived in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.
Enjoyed the storytelling and information... subscribed☺💜💫
That sounds like a very natty walking aid ☺️
Thanks for watching 🙏
I would love to see a video where you talk all about how Mother Nature tells us how to utilize her plants and such. That kind of stuff is fascinating to me.
Nice idea 🙏
Very interesting, thank you for uploading.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Hey man,
just wanted to take a second to thank you for you´re videos, they always, in addition to filling my brains with loads of lovely stories and interesting information, lift my mood and remind me of my time living in scotland. Thank you so much!
Hey man! Thanks so much for saying that, that’s why I make the channel. Means a lot to hear it’s appreciated 🙏☺️
I miss Scotland too, so beautiful. Seems like a world away even though it’s only the other end of this small island, for me anyway 😂
that was really informative and enjoyable, thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it my friend. You have a most excellent beard. 🧙♂️
Great knowledge and description , fun too, delivered with wit.
I loved gathering Hazelnuts as a child. I was alway grateful whilst collecting the prized nuts. I had a natural love for the Hazelnut trees, (bushes), and the plants' stages that produced the wonderful nuts! Still my favorite nut, flavoring, etc. I adore Frangelico Liquor with it's bold Hazelnut taste including subtle hints of chocolate. Whhat a delight. Today, i pay homage to this wonderful creation. Take care, all!
Hazel has medicinal uses also, glad to hear the tales, thankyou
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Thanks for the knowledge 🙏🏽
Very interesting presentation. The Hazel sapling that I planted last year has grown quickly this spring.
Pleased to hear it. It will be ready for coppicing in no time ☺️
thankyou enjoyed that best wishes
Glad you enjoyed it
I was speaking to my father recently about water divination and he mentioned that as children they would use Hazel branches just as you mentioned 😊
That’s really interesting, I love how the old ones pass on the old ways. Make a record! And thanks for watching 🙏☺️
Extremely interesting and engaging and I’m seeing hints of Oliver Reed possibly..!
Great viewing thank you.
Learn something new with every story you tell and when I’m walking my dogs around the beautiful lakes which I’m lucky enough to live near I’m looking at my surroundings with new eyes 😊thankyou
That’s why I love learning about the folklore of the natural world. You look at it much deeper. Thanks for writing 🙏☺️
You mean resivours.
Your delight is absolutely a gift… thank you for your wisdom and ways beautiful soul 🌌
I had a feeling that there was some story behind Hazel trees, which I planted 3 last year, but I never knew how much of a history, and wonderful folk lore was about them.
Thank you for sharing this, I’m glad I saw your YT channel pop up.
New subscriber From the Great Southern Land 🇦🇺.
Welcome aboard my friend in the far away southern lands!
@@TheStoryCrow
A pleasure mate
First time finding your channel! My home is in Arkansas...in The US. Specifically, I spent most of my formative years (and then some) in The Ozarks Mountains. I consider myself to be Hill Folk. My parents began building our 1st house in 1971 and because of its location, a well needed to be dug. Even though a 'ancient mechanical apparatus' would do the drilling. I distinctly remember a community friend divining for the water. I could not tell you if he was using Hazel, but that was where the drilling took place and water was found. It was not viewed as something out of the ordinary or magic.
Thanks for your time🌞
Hey, welcome aboard! Thanks for sharing this. I love hearing stories of older generations. Yes, a lot of old ways are not really considered magic or out of the ordinary are they. It’s just how people did things.
Ich lebe in einer kleinen Stadt in Hessen, die 783 zum erstenmal urkundlich erwähnt wurde. Tatsächlich ist sie aber vermutlich viel, viel älter. - Heute heißt sie Aßlar, was von "Hasselare" kommen soll. Ein heiliger, von Haselnüssen einefasster Platz der Kelten. Dort steht heute noch die evangelische Kirche. Und im Stadtwappen prankt noch immer die Haselnuss.
Love this, thanks for the comment 🌳🙏
What a lovely video!
Glad you enjoyed it ☺️
Thank you this video was very informative.
Glad it was helpful 🌳
Really enjoyed this video! Do you think you will make a video about Elder?
Eventually 😂🙏🌳
Very interesting Story Crow you learn something new everyday 👌🏻
Thanks for stopping by ☺️ 🌰 🌳
A real woodland hazelnut faery too ! Squirrels get all mine and voles get the ones they drop, often a source of self sown if the vole does not eat its stash .! Super useful for free canes that often sprout and you can urban plant them in denuded areas . They apparently have better nut harvests if different varieties are near by .
Ah, didn’t know that. Yes the squirrels get em round here too. Lucky I know a magic spot in waterfall country, wales, that’s flooded with nuts by the pools 🏴 🌳
In Oregon we have a large Filbert Festival, hazelnuts are a big deal here.
My favorite tree :D great for bows and great for nuts.!
I like that that’s given me a small window into your life 😂 happy shooting and happy foraging ☺️
Did yt hear me when I said in attracted to Ladies named Hazel 🎉..
Brilliant information Great wisdoms passed Thank You
Oh how amazing and interesting! I loved this, thank you.
My pleasure, thanks for watching ☺️
As I grew up my grandfather on Aylburton common (A driver for GW) use to make me Hazel thumb sticks when holidaying with them, fond memories.
Thanks for sharing them 🙏✨☺️🌳
Thank you so much for another interesting story i really enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it my friend 🙏🌳🌱☺️
Where I live, in North California, there were Hawthorn growing when I got here, now there’s even more. I’ve been looking into Hazel, and the native California hazel at that, and was researching the kind of terrain to plant in. So I’m grateful you mentioned a more open forested area, where it can get enough sun. I’ve really appreciated your contribution, thank you.
Thank you, and good luck with your hazels ☺️🌳🙏
Oh and make sure they get lots of water, obviously 😅 hazel is thirsty. It’s wetter then California over here - but maybe your type is better in dryer conditions 🤷♂️
@@TheStoryCrowI live on a watershed, bushes and trees do great once established, but summers are dry and hot, so that’s a good point.
Thank You so much for this information! I love your accent! I love your stories! 💜
Glad you like them 🙏🌳😊
Former plumber and current farmer here, dousing rods are fun if you have plenty of time to waste and don't mind coming away short handed. Maps and following the wet are far more efficient ways to find a water leak.
Thank you & greetings from Hazelwood Pottery in Hazelwood NC
Sounds like a natty place. I like a good pot. 🙏✨
So were the LOW BORN, bound to LAND, and SEED❤
Woe to the HIGHBORN, as WE were born of NEED😊
Cool info Buddy, Great video received with gratitude . Blessings from the woodlands 🌳
I salute you woodland spirit, with thanks 🙏🦌✨🌱
I grew up in the Ozarks in USA. My Dad witched wells for people, but he used a forked peach branch. He was always successful. We never thought of it as witchcraft. When my 8th grade teacher said that it was, I was devastated. My ancestors were Scotch-Irish. Perhaps this practice was passed down.
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing ☺️
My aunt dowsed for a new well on their farm, and the driller hit an artisian water system, which is quite dramatic until they get it capped. It pumped white silt all over the lower yard, and overflowed into the little brook. It has never gone dry, but it has sulfur and makes the house smell.
Wow. That’s interesting, and slightly unfortunate
Sulphur seems unusual. Could be the drains.
Haven't even watched this and already subscribed. Great stuff
Welcome aboard and thanks 🙏
Thank you so much a very interesting story i really enjoyed it
Thanks for listening ☺️🌳 🌰
Beautiful
Made some bows out of it, u just have to fire harden the belly, pretty decent bowwood, very easy to find good straight staves,50lbs can cast an arrow approx 200meters...I just recently started to build a stronger one❤
Yes brother it works, & that’s more than a fact it’s truth. But you understand this of course. But thanks for the video I’ve been really injoying your knowledge on these things.
'fascinating. I grew up in a hazelnut orchard in North Albany, Oregon on Palestine Hill. After that, I lived in the Hazelnut District in West Albany.
Here's the best way to eat hazelnuts: Roast them on low heat for a couple of hours. Remove the husks by rubbing them together. Add butter and salt. This is very good for cardiovascular health. You can also coat them with chocolate.
Mmm. Sounds delicious. The squirrels usually beat me to the nuts 😂
Thank you for your video, you are an excellent storyteller. I love that you recognized our hazel tree as a shrub, yes that is correct! as a horticulturalist I appreciate that 😃 its small details like this that make a difference to the knowledge that you are presenting. so well done.
I am also interested in our ancient lives on these isles, our ancestors are a diverse lot and Britain and to a lesser degree Ireland have been a melting pot of cultures religious practices etc. so absolutely may that continue moving forward, all should feel welcome here.
I do feel you might be interested to delve into the term 'Celtic' ..... I discovered in my quest to reconnect with Celtic roots that the term is inaccurate being unfortunately misapplied by historians in the past and is not really useful to describe people of these islands!
Perhaps it would be better if we reclaim the term Ancient Briton or Pretanni, a name the people of these islands would have likely recognized and identified as...Celts were( are) people of southern France/northern Spain, famous for sacking Rome. To the best of my knowledge, the diverse tribes of Britain/Ireland were not Celts in any shape or form, but of course there was cross pollination of ideas/people /technology/trade throughout out Europe.
I found that updating the term Celt to ancient Briton has helped me to deeper understand the wisdom of these islands and remove barriers that we may have applied to ourselves.
Yes I agree re ancient Briton, but ‘Celtic’ is still used even in an academic context as an umbrella term covering a periods places and languages. It’s not ideal, but it’s just the way language has evolved.
On another but related note I still prefer to call the early medieval the ‘dark ages’ it just sounds better 😂
@@TheStoryCrow I appreciate what you are saying about the umbrella term, I had the same perspective when someone questioned my use of the term Celtic, at the time I was discussing Celtic religion/spirituality. As you are saying this is how things have evolved with the use of the term.
Sure we can accept this. But I understand things to be shifting especially in academic sense ( but obviously there is lots of material using the original Celtic narrative) as this was an important part of our history/origins searching with an open mind for answers is useful and will shed new perspectives on our current evolution, I find it way more liberating to call us by our true name(s) and embrace that Identity, rather that using a generic term. after all the facts haven't changed re religion, wisdom or culture of these islands just the label Celtic.
Sorry I don't want to bombard you on this ....I have made my point and you have responded so thank you😀! In the meantime keep up the good work, excellent content thank you.
by the way you may be interested I found a German craftsman who make replicas of ancient artifacts, belt, buckles brooches and torcs among many other things.
he has a website if you google 'replik shop' you will find it. some very interesting pieces with some real history to them.
Yes all good points, my problem with Pretanni or anything like that is that there’s no evidence Britons saw themselves as a unified people either, so it would be also inaccurate. That leaves us with individual tribal names, so I’d be a Dobunni, that’s quite fun, but it’s starts us down quite the rabbit hole 😂 I tend to stick with generic terms and then clarify when necessary. As a linguistic label, Celtic is appropriate to describe the British tribes, but it needs qualification depending on context as you point out 👍
Ah, I’ll check them out - thanks
I have been interested in our folklore throughout my life. These days I write stories primarily to amuse my friends and family, and draw heavily on the old lore, it is lovely to see a revival of the old ways.
Incidentally, as to divining, I used to work on an old site in the high Pennines, and once when we were trying to locate a drainage pipe we knew was there somewhere, but unmarked, we all took to divining.
Not just sticking to water, once the pipe was located we decided to find other things. Some were looking for metals/coins, but I was utterly unsuccessful, even when I held my rods pointing at the till, I got nothing.
I'm not really interested in money, living as lightly as possible, so I jokingly suggested to the rods cake might be nice; I do like cake.
The rods practically leapt out of my hands to drag me to the on site cafe 😂
That’s really interesting thank you, and suggests that it’s more about the individual than the rods themselves which is what I always presumed…
The Welsh for Hazel is Cyll, a single Hazel tree is Collen
I have only watched the first 5 frames but... great improvement, lovely warm colour. 👌🤓
[That was most interesting, thankee, I was wondering about dousing the other day, after unthinkingly poo-pooing a fellow doing it and catching myself there, to say: "Eh, thar's assuming there!" Hum-hum. Trouble is... though I do take your word for it - as you say, if people are paid to do it, it must work... I'd still like to test it for myself but that means digging a load of ruddy great holes to test if its right... which is rather a serious undertaking. Mmm. Anyhow, lovely insights there, your knowledge continues to amaze me, all the best,
Jess.
Oh PS. I have long had a love of the silver birch tree, and was rather taken aback to hear hazel described as the fairest of trees, since silver birch is so light and airy and perfect for skipping under... would love to see a run-down of the Silver Birch like this.]
I’ve poo pooed many a fellow for doing much less, and yet, don’t make assumptions, I say to my self (while hopefully not covered in poo)
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@@TheStoryCrow Well, a bit of poo-pooing acts as manure upon the subject, nothing like being poo-pooed to make one dig in deep and reach for a hole in the canopy (to slightly overdo the metaphor! 😂)
Thanks for the insight. - from North Texas.
Also: I'm a hand dude, and your hands are quite dandy *thumbs*
unconscious intuition ---> as above, so below. Soooo cool
Ah yes I’ve got double jointed thumbs 😂👍
Thank you
Your channel popped into my feed today. I read. I read a lot. Something I read a few years back came to mind while listening: do you know anything that might explain why warriors (Saxons and Viking) might mark off a challenge area with four hazel rods? The author does extensive research, so I've no reason to doubt her description of how the area was mark-stepping outside of the hazel rods was seen as admitting defeat/tapping out. But it was always hazel.
Have you ever heard of this use, or ideas as to why?
That’s interesting. My guess, and it is only a guess, is that as a building material of houses the rods demarcate a kind of enclosed ritual space with an inside and an outside - and it’s own societal rules - like a dwelling. So stepping out is literally stepping outside in the cold. Could just be because hazel is straight and abundant too I suppose 🤷♂️ I tend to prefer symbolic interpretations because they’re more interesting 😅 thanks for sharing that, where did you read it?
In fact the Hazel is very easy to grow from the actual nut . The Hazel nut is quite expensive to buy in the autumn so I planted a few years ago , however the squirrels from the area so I can not gather enough for us .Grey Squirrels do not exist in the UK in ancient times as they were introduced during the Victorian period . In fact the Hazel looks quite presentable in Jan/Feb with catkins blowing in the wind which helps to polinate the very small red flowers
Such mixed feelings about greys…. Cute, invasive, delicious……..
Most interesting.
Cheers!
love your channel
Thank you my friend, that makes it worthwhile 🙏
They're filberts here in Oregon.
Are they? Interesting thanks 🙏 😊
Is there a relationship between Hazel coppices and human habitation? I suspect this is really obscured now millenia later but in the mesolithic period would coppices occur where humans had passed through? In the USA the Johnny Appleseed folklore came about because frontiersmen traveling through discarding their applecores amongest other things created apple trees growing along the old paths and trails.
Yes I expect so, as hazel is such a common building material for wattle walls etc, there would be habitation nearby coppices.
Very cool about Jonny Appleseed. That’s how apples and their folklore got to Europe from Central Asia!
I work in water industry and can confirm we do still use dowsing rods to find leaks or more pipes that arnt on the drawings 😉
I’ve heard that from a few engineers at Thames water. Really interesting
Most of us have the copper dowsing rods or 2 bent copper pipes on our vans as a tradition sometimes the modern electric cat and genny finders don't pick thing up so out come the rods and often they do
Great video I just ran accross you so I wanted to say thanks.
Thanks for stopping by my friend 😊🙏
I’ve grown a small copse of Hazels from nuts I harvested last year. Not sure where to plant them at the moment 🤔
I need to plant more hazel. Such a lovely and useful wood. The squirrels always get the nuts before me though 😆
I'm one who can divine water with a hazel wand, its said only 25% of people actually have the power to do so. I have found many a burst pipe or underground spring in the 50 years I have been doing it. The stronger the pull on the hazel wand the stronger the flow of water lies beneath, the only thing it can't determine is how deep down you have to dig before you hit an underground spring, but I can assure you it works...
Good old skill to have ✨😉
Hard stuff, I love Hazels and in my garden there are growing a lot. The first tree I remember a Hazel on way to school. Also, the first tree I could recognize by smelling on its rind. But, I hope you can help me with an existencial question: My affinity to Mother Nature and trees especially Hazels causes me every December until March Mid time a lot of "hay fever" (among others), I am suffering sometimes like undergoing an influenza. Question: do you have any explanation for the fact that my immune system goes crazy with those trees which are registered from time on when Mammoths were still around the earth, "hazel and alder"? I am totally interested in ancient wisdom but the access is obviously closed. I would really appreciate one or more possible answers and may be a solution for opening the way (not the cognitive based more the hearty way and intuition) into more life - according to nature and so on. I hope to hearing some replies here on the portal, thanks for this amazing contribution and upgrading of my knowledge - says my heart!!!! greetings from Hesse - Germany - Crissy
Wow. What a strange time to have an allergic reaction, that doesn’t seem common you’re right. Perhaps gradual exposure? My own seasonal allergies tend to fluctuate over the course of life so maybe it’s a waiting game. Hopefully someone else can be more helpful! Good luck with your quest into plant intelligence and the imaginal realm! (A great book btw maybe that will provide an answer 🤔)
@@TheStoryCrow maybe I hadnot enough oxygen but which book do you recommend me? Or what does the last sentence or sentences mean! Thank you so much for your polite response, I am happy with your channel - ciao ciao Crissy
It’s called ‘plant intelligence and the imaginal realm’ about … well the intelligence and consciousness of plants. It’s by Steven buhner. But looking back on your comment it may not be relevant I don’t know, I just like the book 😂 thanks for supporting the channel 🙏☺️
@@TheStoryCrow thank you for such nice recommendation, I love plants and may be I ll get a little hint deeper, bye bye and all the best I love your channel, Crissy
A friend of a friend knew a bloke at work who, as a youth, used to douse a bit but had to give it up when he moved into a flat near a public swimming pool as his dousing equipment would all end up pointing to the wall nearest the pool.
😂 that’s hilarious - and yet tragic, thanks for sharing 😊
You lost me at dousing but otherwise very interesting. Would be interesting to see a video on uses of these natural materials in ancient animal husbandry
I do into that a little, I think right after the dousing 😂
@@TheStoryCrow I heard! And it just tickled my curiosity to delve even further!
It made me think about keeping pigs and what people would make that would be strong enough to keep them in one place
Dublin in Irish is Baile Atha Cliath, which means the town of hurdle ditch, and the hurdle was probably hazel.
I’d forgotten that, thanks for the info. Yeah I’d probably agree with you 🙏☺️
Hazel's, almond,raspberry&plum are abundant on most industrial estates within Wiltshire. Wildlife munch most of it.
Bloody freeloaders! Thanks for watching, fellow moonraker 👍
have you any info on the hazel and invisibility?
Rings a faint bell that one… but not to my knowledge.
@@TheStoryCrow Thank you. I just saw your reply (2 months later) I came back to watch the hazel story again. I am writing a novel for ages 8 and up Of course there has to be an antagonist! . Her motive--to be revealed-- I have been working on this project for seven years- I am on my third draft. Some day I hope to share it with you and the world
I just found this in my notes! I[[[You could also carry a hazel rod, a fathom and a half long, with a green hazel twig pushed into it. This cast invisibility over the holder (Baker 2011 [1969]: 72). (A fathom is approximately 1.8m, so that would be a rod 2.7m long!) Alternatively, carry hazelnuts in an orange pouch for invisibility (Harrington 2020: 67).]]]]
Very interesting.
Glad you think so 🙏
In Scots ghaidhlig it is called Coll as in the island of Coll it is the third letter in the alphabet
'Jack Temple, the Healer,' cut me a piece of Hazel from his planted Hazel trees at Byfleet. They grew by the carefully chosen welsh stones healing circle he had built there. Have had that bit of Hazel for 40 years. I dowse with pure silver pendulum and chain. The hazel sits in my left hand with a part of the original quartz wand I found, and intuitiviely took to Jack. That quartz lets one read the health levels in the pituitary, thymus, amygdulla, hypothalamus, in the brain.
Who would have ever known...
I’ve heard of that place! Sounds interesting, thanks for sharing 🙏☺️
@@TheStoryCrow
Anytime you want to know about how we used the energy tools there, let me know. Am still working with them today.
A contemporary Jack Hargreaves. Nice.
I’ll take it.
A butter made with hazelnuts and sunflower seeds would be close to being a superfood! What one lacks, the other has.
You sound like a nutrinut!
Imagine having a hazel staff with holly on the tip walking through the woods and a row of deer both sides of the path all bow as they lead you to the forest god
Love this 🦌 🌳✨🙏
Before the industrial revolution, charcoal was used for iron smelting. The wood used would have been mainly from copses.
Dowser is french phonetics for [d'eau-s'ère] (becomes alive by water).
Haze-el : water haze, or, the haze. Water is indeed a treasure...
Dowsing..in Australia we guava..bush ..fork 🇦🇺..👍
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And of course, Hazel is ideal for making Yurts. :)
Yes indeed! I keep meaning to make one of those
@@TheStoryCrow - I know you have a yurt already, with a wood burning stove,, but they are popular. I used to own one, and got married in it. A traditional hand-fasting. I used to work for the RUclips Shaman. We made a video called 'coppicing wood to make a yurt' maybe 15 years ago. It is less than 5mins in length, and yet it has had over 14 thousand views! Maybe we made more videos on his channel about it, I cant remember, but there is huge interest!
Even the Vikings found the number 9 of great significance, As they believed that the cosmos had 9 World's that surrounded and hang from Yggdrasil ( the Gallows Tree) as they knew that a Woman's Pregnancy was 9 month's
Yes indeed, and the hanged god was on that tree for 9 … well I guess he’s still up there 🧙 🌳
My local stone circle at stanton drew has 9 inner rings found with ground radar
Cool info!
Apparently, if you hold a long hazel stick in your hand, after about 8 minutes you are likely to start waffling uncontollably.
That’s the good bit mate!
What about the hazel that gets curly, Harry lauders walking stick. .?
Impromptu toothbrush! Break off a small hazel twig, chew the broken end and the wood fibres will form a brush you can use for your teeth.
Yes, good point, thanks 😊
What about Witch-Hazel?
Native to North America I think? I don’t know much about it, but I think it’s a very similar species. Not sure if ‘witch’ refers to witchcraft though. Maybe!
Thank you for your reply. I like your work and I appreciate you took time to write. Have a great day.@@TheStoryCrow
I think truffles may grow on their roots
I think you’re right 🐖 🌳
Isn't that oak?