ENTRIES for last year’s International Garden Photographer of the Year competition have gone on show at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.

More than 60 images submitted for the world's premier competition specialising in garden, plant, flower and botanical photography can be viewed at the Borough Road museum until Sunday June 26.

The contest, run in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew, in London, is open to both amateur and professional photographers world-wide.

Winners in eight categories of the prestigious competition are featured, all inspired by gardens and the wonders of the natural world.

The images have been on show at Kew Gardens in London, and at various locations across England, Sweden and the Netherlands.

They include the overall competition winner, an image of lupins beside Lake Tekapo, in New Zealand, earned the photographer, Richard Bloom, £7,500 in prize money.