Gillian Plummer Full Member

Frosted ice on web of garden spider decorating the fence

Location: Suffolk

Verbena bonariensis

Location: Suffolk

My garden at sunset

Location: Suffolk

IGPOTY Awards 2023 Second place

Location: Cambridge University Botanical Gardens

Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna' andwild grass

Location: Suffolk

Wild flowers and grasses scattered along the edge of a field

Location: Suffolk

My first siting of the dove-tree, pocket handkerchief tree, or ghost tree,

Location: Somerleyton Gardens, Suffolk

Short-listed 'Two of a kind', CUPOTY Nov 2021

Ancient oaks well over 400 years old.

Location: Suffolk

Pelaronium seed head

A delayed mowing of the roadsides this year enabling wildflower seed scattering to blossom

Location: Suffolk

Oxalis articulata, pink wood sorrel in flower

Heavy shower creating a mist around the glorious Erysimum 'Bowles's Mauve' wallflower

A cluster of Greater Speedwell growing in a small ancient woodland

Location: Suffolk

Wildflower Draba verna, Common nailwort

Short-listed in CUPOTY One colour

A green tone from reflected light passing through the window

Drying out

Short-listed in IGPOTY B&W, and CPOTY Macro Awards

Looping stems of the Papaver rhoeas

An ornage tree grows in the ruins of a former church

Location: Northern Cyprus

The spring light highlights the delicateness of this prunus blossom

Magnification of tiny veins

Cactus columns of pachycereus pringlei

Location: Isle of Ischia

This sturdy succulent plant surprised me by throwing out red stems of delightfully tiny, bright pink and yellow flowers.

Onion arthur seedhead escaping its casing

A safe resting place for this snail

Curling statmens

A stunning flower head of blues and greens from Lady Whincups cut flower farm. Lit up by the morning sun.

Every year I wait for these tiny buds, there is something appealing about they way they cluster

Opening up on a warm dewy moring

Sun rising behind the young oak tree. The ground beneath is dusted in frost.

Iris foetidissima, stinking iris seeds ready to drop

Location: One of Decembers IOM winners 2017

Delicate trio

A field of carrot flowers turning to seed

August 2017

Location: Winning image in the IGPOTY 'Macro art' Awards, August 2017

Papaver somniferum petals blown open to reveal a tight cluster of stamens.

Syringa vulgaris

Location: One of April's IOM winners

Basking in the early morning sun.

Anemone blanda blue

Early morning dew coats late flowering wild lupin

Spider's web spanning heather

Grid like branched head of trembling spikelets

Clusters of mini flower heads

I glanced down on this Allium cristophii. Most of the small flower heads were closed-up. What drew my eye was a this delicate circle of open flowers almost linking up around the circumference. Another of nature's fascinations.

A heart-shaped Myosotis sylvatica flower head

Yellow flag seed head, Highly commended IGPOTY 2015

Such a delicate flower

Frosted coats

Wildlife photographer of the Year Awards: Short-listed, 2017. The early morning sun is just appearing and lights-up these frosty ice coated moss shoots

This Rosa 'Remember me' came out in January and withered. Covered in icicles just before sun rise is looks rather graceful.

Location: Suffolk

Cotinus

Finalist IGPOTY 2014

High Commended IGPOTY 2014.

Softly lit

Dispersal of seeds

Wonderful curling stamens

Lonicera x brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet'

Chinese foxglove Rehmannia elata waiting to open

Unfolding its petals

Delicately poised

Winning image of the month March 2015. Anemone blanda 'pink' in early evening light

Hydrangea Petiolaris Climber

Droplets of iced water

I just love the colours of this winter viola

Winning image of the month October 2014. Spliting seed head of a Yellow Flag with seeds poised to fall

Location: Suffolk

The bubbles on the head of this Toad Lily fascinated me

Commended IGPOTY 2014. I like the architectural structure of the sea holly and its solitariness

Location: Minsmere beach, Suffolk

Winning Image of month June 2014. The Pelargonium zonale 'Red Satisfaction' flower heads in the background added drama to this pelargonium seed head

Concentric rings of colour

Floating bleeding hearts

The proximity of the spathes of this Spathiphyllum lynise convey a sense of peace, as suggested in their everyday name Peace Lily

Winning Image of month February 2014. Close-up of the raindrops on the petal.

Early morning sun slowly burning through thick mist and light frost highlights the oak tree (Quercus) silhoutte

I've gone for simplicity. Focusing in closely, looking upwards and capitalising on the blue of the sky.

I was drawn by the brightness of the berries gently swaying.

Location: Wisley

The contrast in colour attracted me, the teeth-like seeds once neatly compact are now slipping out of their casing. The end of one life and the beginning of another.

These tiny seeds just spring out from dying pelargonium flower heads. PGPA Image of month Sept 2013

The up sweep of the bud caught my eye

Up close, I was surprised by the subtle shades of colour at the centre of this flower

Location: Suffolk sandy soils

Petals being blown in a gentle breeze on a slightly overcast day

Location: My garden in Sufolk

Finalist in IGPOTY 2012. Exhibited at New York Botanical Gardens

A winning image in IGPOTY 2012. Exhibited at New York Botanical Garden

The thin spider thread spanning this Cosmos drew my attention, it glistened in the sunlight.

I just loved the way these slender Muscari leaves curled and linked up with each other - another couple tying the knot in April!

Th frost was still clinging to the petals but just beginning to melt, when I took this in the early morning. There is a hit of sun in the background, which gives a lift to the crocus silhouettes. Winning image of the month.

The single turned down petal caught my eye. Winning image of the month

I am fascinated by the complexity of these folded fennel flower heads. Finalist IGPOTY 2009.

Poppies are my passion and I could not rest this petal hollow holding on to these stamens.

This dead elm in the reed bed was suddenly transformed by rolling thunder.

On the odd occasion my Pelargonium produces these very small seed heads with their exotic fans. Photographing them is challenging. They are tiny, they constantly move, they are positioned at awkward angles but they are stunning. Winning image of the month.

I was attracted by its slightly ghostly feel, an effect of the blurred out background, enhanced by the splash of orange. PGPA Winning image of the month.

Garden Media Guild Photographer of the Year, one of four finalistst

Winning image RHS Awards