The 2025 ‘Tree Of The Year’ Is An Ash Growing In The Middle Of Glasgow

The 2025 ‘Tree Of The Year’ Is An Ash Growing In The Middle Of Glasgow

The 2025 ‘Tree Of The Year’ Is An Ash Growing In The Middle Of Glasgow The Argyle Street Ash – credit, Woodland Trust England’s coveted Tree of the Year award, on which GNN reports yearly, was won this year by a Scottish ash tree 75 feet-tall. Towering above sandstone row houses, the tree on Argyle Street, in Glasgow has survived a recent ash tree plague, as well as the Clydeside blitz, and recent urban development. It was described, the Guardian reports, as “quite the most graceful ash” by a local historian and writer, words which sit bracketed above the bar in the pub across the street from the tree. Legend has it that it grew from an ash seed hidden within the roots of primrose brought back by a family on holiday. The UK’s Tree of the Year competition is organized by the Woodland Trust, one of the country’s most active and influential woodland conservation group. Each year’s winner is then nominated to the European Tree of the Year contest the following year. “Trees really matter to peopl…