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Wildcard entry wins Tree of the Year 2025
Glasgow's "Argyle Street Ash" has been crowned Tree of the Year 2025 after being nominated by the public as a wildcard entry.
The tree, which stands tall on one of the city's busiest roads, was named winner of the Woodland Trust's competition on Thursday after a public vote. Earlier this year, a panel of experts selected nine trees of differing ages and species for the shortlist, while the public were allowed to choose a 10th as a wildcard.
Those nominated included an oak that may have inspired Virginia Woolf and a lime representing peace in Northern Ireland, a nod to this year's theme of "rooted in culture". But it was the Argyle Street Ash that won over voters after being put forward by David Treanor - an arborist from Glasgow who has been managing the tree in recent years.
Mr Treanor pointed to its reference in the 1951 book by journalist James Cowan, From Glasgow's Treasure Chest, in which he describes the tree as "quite the most graceful ash I have seen". This quote hangs framed in the pub opposite the tree, which hosts Gaelic live music events.
The ash will now progress to represent the UK in the European Tree of the Year finals in early 2026. It narrowly beat the "King of Limbs" oak that inspired a Radiohead album, and the striking "Lonely Tree.
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