The thirteenth competition featured gardens from across the world and new categories include Square Crop, Plants and Planet and Captured at Kew.
Zhigang Li winner of International Garden Photographer Wildflower Landscapes category
The overall winner of the International Garden Photographer of the Year was named as Albert Ceolan of South Tyrol, Italy. Ceolan won £7,500 and said: “The thought that one of my images will be shown as overall winner in these mythical gardens fills me with enthusiasm and pride.”
The image (seen above) is of the destruction of the Vaia Storm in the Dolomites in South Tyrol, Italy. It was entered in the new Plants and Planet category.
Tyrone McGlinchey, head judge said: “Albert has documented a scene which is simultaneously shocking as it is well composed. The photo shows both the natural destruction by storm Vaia and the remaining trees, symbolising hope.”
Brandon Yoshizawa, winner of the International Garden Photographer Greening the City category
Zhigang Li winner of International Garden Photographer Wildflower Landscapes
Thorsten Scheuermann, winner of International Garden Photographer Breathing Spaces category
Thorsten Scheuermann, winner of the International Garden Photographer, Trees, Woods, and Forests category
Maggie Lambert winner of International Garden Photographer Abstract View category
Jim Turner, winner of International Garden Photographer Wildlife in the Garden category
Jacky Parker, winner of the International Garden Photographer The Beauty of Plants category
Jacky Parker winner of the International Garden Photographer Beautiful Garden category
Other winners include Jacky Parker in the category Beautiful Gardens for New Forest Lavender Farm, Thorsten Scheuermann for swamp elder in Trees, Woods and Forests category and Zhigang Li in the Wildflower Landscapes category for mountains in Diquing Yunnan.
The Sissinghurst Photographic Award was won by Ingrid Popplewell for ‘Early Morning Reflections in the Moat’.
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The winning images will be collated into a book and an exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew which then tours in the UK and worldwide. Submissions can come from professional or amateur photographers.
Entries of the Beautiful Gardens category
Jacky Parker winner of the Beautiful Garden category. New Forest Lavender Farm, Wiltshire
John Campbell, 2nd place for Beautiful Gardens category for International Garden Photographer. Knoll Gardens, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
Stephen Dunn, 3rd place for the Beautiful Gardens category for International Garden Photographer. Golden Rock Inn, Nevis Island, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Joe Wainwright a finalist for the Beautiful Gardens category for International Garden Photographer. National Trust Bodnant Garden
Marianne Majerus a finalist for the Beautiful Gardens category of the International Garden Photographer, St. Timothee Garden, Berkshire
Nigel McCall a finalist for the Beautiful Gardens category for International Garden Photographer. Aberglasney Gardens
Thorsten Scheuermann, finalist for the Beautiful Gardens category for the International Garden Photographer of the Year. Seattle Japanese Garden, Seattle
Bożena Piotrowska a finalist for Beautiful Gardens category for International Garden Photographer. Wojsławice Arboretum, Niemcza, Poland
The Dragon Garden on a misty autumn morning at Knoll Gardens. Carole Drake a finalist for Beautiful Gardens category for International Garden Photographer
Mary Anne Chilton finalist for the Beautiful Gardens category for International Garden Photographer of the Year. U.S. National Arboretum
Vincenzo Di Nuzzo, finalist for the Beautiful Gardens category for International Garden Photographer of the Year
Ming Li a runner up in the Beautiful Gardens category for International Garden Photographer
Marianne Majerus a finalist for the Beautiful Gardens category of International Garden Photographer
Claire Takacs, finalist in the Beautiful Gardens category of the International Garden Photographer of the Year
