This year’s theme, Whatever the Weather at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, invites visitors to submit photographs captured in the Garden during any season and from any year, inspired by the changing light, warmth, skies, colour and atmosphere that shape the landscape throughout the year. Entries close on 31 October.
Entrants are encouraged to observe and photograph how plants and landscapes respond to climatic conditions across the Garden’s 40 acres – from the Mediterranean Beds, Dry Garden and Perennial Meadow, which showcase planting for warmer, drier climates, to species across the Living Collection adapting to hotter summers; or the ways both visitors and wildlife respond to warm weather – from moments of shade beneath the trees to pollinators seeking shelter among foliage and flowers.
From dramatic skies and sunlit borders to raindrops after a shower, cooling shade and the textures of drought-tolerant planting, the competition offers the chance to see the Garden through a seasonal lens.
