Bloom Magazine – Issue 16: Spring/Summer 2024

Bloom is a magazine for gardeners, plant admirers, nature lovers, curious explorers and outdoor adventurers. It is beautiful and useful; it looks lovely and it works hard; it makes you muse on the handsomeness of nature and it inspires you to get out there and be a part of it.

Issue 16 is full of things to do, stories from nature and an unbounded enthusiasm for this wonderful planet we call home.

In this issue, you’ll find:
* Ideas for a wild garden in an urban landscape
* How to grow heirloom salads with a story
* Lunar gardening highlights for 2024
* Selecting flowers with flavour
* How to expand your mind with psychedelic plants
* Nifty ways to make insects bug
* How to grow houseplants outside
* Meet the farmers transforming agriculture
* Olivia Laing on restoring a garden
* A homage to rock in the landscape
* London's new Black farmers’ market
* A review of the Land Skills Fair
* A love letter to buddleja
* Why gardeners should become guerrilla growers
* The art of well dressing
* An essay on land and identity
* Nature books for growing kids
* Creating a dried flower centrepiece
* A calendar of 12 wild plant recipes
* An interview with activist Tayshan Hayden-Smith
* And much more!

Language: English