This is the 9th and final day of National Tree Week! We hope you have enjoyed the trees we selected to highlight for National Tree Week, and the memories of the tree protection campaign so many of you were involved in. You can see all the selected trees on the new STAG website here. STAG…

There are 9 days in National Tree Week!, so today is the first bonus tree – Shane’s Tree, a Common Lime (Tilia x europaea), is the only tree on Aldfield Way, a quiet backstreet in Burngreave, near the Northern General Hospital. Shane’s tree was threatened with felling in 2017, for ‘totally bonkers’ reasons. On July…

Ellen the Lime (named after the Star journalist Ellen Beardmore) is the lone survivor of the very early morning ‘Night Raid’ on Rustlings Rd on the 17th November 2016, when 7 out of 8 targeted trees were felled. Arrests of protestors under the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act (related to flying picketing) were subsequently…

This London Plane (Platanus x hispanica), with distinctively shaped branches, was threatened with felling along with 22 others healthy trees on Western Rd, mainly because they were categorised as damaging the pavement or offsetting the kerb. The Western Rd trees were planted in 1919, in memory of former pupils of the local Western Road Council…

The branches of ‘Stumpy’, a Common Lime on Meersbrook Park Rd, have filled out nicely since this squirrel protected it, on a rather grey day, from the felling crews early on in the protests. Originally, just under half of the 42 trees on Meersbrook Park Rd were planned to be felled. Squirrels – protestors climbing…

This Cherry tree on Abbeydale Park Rise may not be the most elegant, formed of 3 main branches awkwardly, and rather absurdly, sticking out from the top of a mis-matched, squat and flat-topped trunk. However it was the setting for one of the most iconic photos from the campaign, when it formed a platform for…

Mary Marshall was a campaigner all her life, for women’s rights and animal welfare, access to arts education and support for those with mental health difficulties, and for the protection of Sheffield’s healthy street trees. Despite a long term illness she travelled all over the city, often at short notice by taxi, to sit under…

Another notable street tree for National Tree Week is the Chelsea Rd Elm, a 130-year old Huntingdon Elm.The Chelsea Rd Elm is home to the very rare White Letter Hairstreak butterfly, which only lays its eggs on elms. The Chelsea Rd Elm was originally put on the felling list in 2015 supposedly because it was…

National Tree Week runs from Saturday 22nd to Sunday 30th November 2025. All week, in their Winter states without leaves, Sheffield’s street trees will be showing off their amazing structures in the rain or occasional sunshine. Take some time to look up and admire. The 160-year old Vernon Oak is looking particularly spectacular. It originally…