The winners have been announced in the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland’s 2025 Photographic Competition. Botanists were encouraged to submit images in this year’s three categories: intrepid, inquisitive and inclusive – these are the Society’s core values and best describe our members.
The winning entries in each category were:
Intrepid: finding plants in wild places.
Into the depths – Aquatic plants at Loch Ullachie, Aberdeenshire by Ian Francis
Inquisitive: up close with diagnostic features
Grass-of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris), Birnie, Morayshire, by Catriona Matheson
Inclusive: sharing plants with others
Great Reedmace (Typha latifolia), Cambridgeshire by Edward Burden
This year’s entries, and images entered into the Competition since its launch in 2015, were used across the Society’s website in its recent relaunch and are also available to view or download (with credit) on the Photo Competition webpage – click here.
Julia Hanmer, BSBI Chief Executive, said “The BSBI Photographic Competition is a brilliant celebration of the beauty and complexity of our wild plants and the fascination they hold for all of us. These images highlight and celebrate the dazzling visual world of wild plants, and the botanists who help us better understand them and encourage us to work to conserve them for all our benefit”.
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