Thank you so much to all the photographers that took the time to enter their pictures. The standard has been extremely high and we have very much enjoyed looking through all the photographs and hope that you have too.

The winning picture is by a very talented photographer from Southampton, Charlotte Thompson. Congratulations to Charlotte for her stunning close-up of the beautiful Lunaria flower more commonly known as ‘Honesty’. Charlotte has won one of our ‘Year round…’ club memberships and her image will appear on the front cover of our 2009 calender.

Second place and winner of a £50 gift voucher is Catherine Stephenson with her stunning close up of the Centaurea montana flower. 3rd place goes to Neil Hedge with his amazing close-up of the Gazania plant. Neil wins a £25 Blooming Direct voucher.

The 9 runners up, who will also appear in our calender, are as follows (in no particular order):

Water Lilly – by Malcolm Heaven
Purple on White on Red – by Guy Radford
Snowdrops – by ‘Schlafstern’
Black Tulip Queen of the Night – by Souvik Bhattacharya
Poppysmith – by Melgina Smith
Lilly-2 – by Steven Lees
Bluebells – by Armands Sprogis
So blue – by Lesley McLelland
Ring of Red – by Paul Lane

All of our competition winners will be contacted personally and will receive a copy of our 2009 calender.

We hope that you have enjoyed entering and browsing our competition as much as we have enjoyed hosting it! If you would like to continue to enjoy the winning photographs, the competition group will remain on Flickr and our calender will be available to buy later in the year.