The 2025 'Tree of the Year' Is a Scottish Ash Growing in the Middle of Glasgow

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The 2025 ‘Tree of the Year’ Is a Scottish Ash Growing in the Middle of Glasgow

By Andy Corbley - Sep 29, 2025

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.

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Beautiful, old tree. Cherished and not chopped down for awful ballroom addition.

[progressoid]

2. I like this idea of a tree of the year.

[Torchlight]

3. "Evil flourishes in soil where no trees grow."

I don’t know the source, perhaps a quote from a great mind, or just something a teacher once said. Either way, it has stayed with me since junior high, echoing the pastoral parables of Tolkien and Lewis that I loved so much.