The Argyle Street Ash Tree in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. Often referred to as the only tree on Argyle Street, it is thought to have been accidently planted in the early 1850s, when the neighbouring tenements were built, making it around 175 years old. This makes it older than many of the most well known features of the west end of Glasgow, including the nearby Sauchiehall Street, the city’s subway, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow Universtiy’s Gilmorehill campus, and even Kelvingrove Park. Given all that has happened in Glasgow during its lifetime, it is amazing that it has survived until the present day. In 2025, in part of honour this amazing act of survival, it was voted the Woodland Trust’s UK Tree of the Year. This photograph was taken by Colin M. Drysdale early on a winter morning just as the sun was rising behind the blonde sandstone early Victorian tenements of Argyle Street, and behind the tree itself.
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