Bloom Magazine UK

The fact that nature is good for us is hardly a newsflash. By now we are all up to speed on the benefits of the outdoors on body, mind and spirit. We frequently talk about nature being a salve, a place of retreat, beautiful, inspiring, essential. But

There can be a sense of loss as flowers begin to fade, perhaps because it seems most prominent as summer passes into autumn, though in reality this natural process occurs throughout the year. The result, though, is often exquisite: delicate seedheads

@sidhillecogardens | sidhillecogardens.com Here in Cornwall, autumn and winter are challenging months. In the edimental (that’s edible and ornamental) garden, there is often a lack of blooms in autumn and few harvests in the hunger gap of late winter

Every garden, small or large, should have bearded irises. They offer endless colour combinations to suit every planting scheme and are a great solution to the May gap, when there are precious few flowers around and an outrageously beautiful plant is

Right from the start of my cut-flower growing journey, I wanted to specialise in foliage. It’s not that I don’t love a peony, of course I do. But I’m drawn to the subtlety of the leaf shapes, blossoms and berries of trees and shrubs. It is often the

When I was a child in the early 1980s, hanging baskets represented the height of gardening glamour. In my hometown in Devon, local shops and pubs competed for coveted accolades from the local council and Britain in Bloom. I was drawn to the bright co

Best known for their feather-shaped fronds, ferns have a very long and rich history. They have been around for some 300 million years (making them among the oldest plants in the world) and there are more than 10,000 fern species, which goes to show h

Mizzling, drizzling, spitting, lashing, hammering… cats, dogs, stair rods and buckets of it. We know our rain here in the UK, or do we? We’re increasingly experiencing downpours that are being described as the ‘wrong kind of rain’: bursts of heavy do

Trees are an essential element of any garden, however small. Their size and scale enhance the space by adding visual interest and privacy and can even add value to homes, while at the same time benefiting our health and wellbeing. As climate change b

…and rosemary, mint and sage. Organic and peat-free since 1976, the Cottage Herbery has always been a step ahead. As Rob and Kim Hurst get ready to close the doors of their pioneering herb nursery, we speak to Kim about the highs and lows of the last

The lush kitchen garden in north London is bursting with organic fruit and vegetables – runner beans, pea shoots, gooseberries. Once it’s ready to harvest, the produce is taken to the kitchen, 100m away, and used by chefs to create delicious dishes.

The kitchen garden is rich in variety, from tall fruit trees to herbaceous perennials, and from a wide range of plant families. But whatever’s growing, there is likely to be one common denominator – they are all highly cultivated. Cultivated plants a

The Romans used a road called the High Street to traverse the high fells of what today are the eastern fringes of the Lake District national park. A sensational, undulating ridgeback of peaks, it offers views across Scafell Pike to the west, north to

It’s just before 7pm on the last Sunday of July and I’m standing at the corner of Bethnal Green Road in East London. I’m here to observe Mobile Apothecary at work. A cargo bike is being unpacked and transformed into a sturdy table, on top of which si

Everyone says there is a sweet spot in business where you find yourself able to choose your clients, rather than wait for them to choose you. I’m not sure exactly when that happened for me, or actually if it has happened at all, but I feel fortunate

I recently found a dead roe deer on the path near our pond. It was a strange discovery because, unlike the majority of dead deer I have encountered, this one hadn’t been hit by a car. When I checked the footage from the camera trap we use to observe

Having grown up twenty miles from Barbara Hepworth’s place of birth and where she spent her formative years, I unashamedly declare a northern, West Yorkshire affinity with the extraordinarily inspirational 20th century sculptor. We both left Yorkshir

There’s a front garden near to where I live in south London on one of those unfortunate corners where the prevailing winds conspire to collect every piece of litter that blows along the street and deposit it in a single cursed spot. A tide of Monster

Wander into the Glasshouse on Cranbrook’s quaint high street and you’d easily mistake it for another fashionable plant store. But appearances can be deceptive. Packed to the rafters with thriving foliage, this Kent shop is actually the HQ of a pionee

For more than a decade, Norwegian-Finnish artist duo Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen have travelled the world as part of Eyes as Big as Plates – a photographic project that both questions and celebrates our connection with the natural world. Loosel

shows.acast.com/get-birding Billed as a pod for birders and the birdcurious, Get Birding won the Climate Award at the British Podcast Awards in 2022. Season 3 is hosted by Kwesia (aka City Girl in Nature) and includes conversations with novelist Jona