TOAST Magazine

Environment

Exploring the land around us and the ocean beyond. Finding new, thoughtful ways to preserve our environment and connecting with the outdoors.
The Magic of Sea Buckthorn

A trip to the east coast of Scotland to watch the harvest of this vivid berry.

5 years ago
Inside the Kew Herbarium

The extraordinary legacy of a pressed flower.

6 years ago
Worm | A Floral Design Studio

We meet the team behind the flowers.

6 years ago
Alys Fowler at Chelsea Flower Show | 2019

There is a distinctly distopian feel to this year's gardens.

6 years ago
Dartmoor's Pygmy Forest

Matt Collins explores this dramatic, ancient forest.

6 years ago
The Story of Frankincense

From the Holy Land to the Mediterranean.

6 years ago
Autumn's Asters

Matt Collins delights in the abundance of road-side daisies.

6 years ago
The Sea

Laura Barton on living and writing by the sea

7 years ago
The Delights of Seed Swapping

Matt Collins on the joys of handing down plants - from marigolds to irises.

7 years ago
Alys Fowler at Chelsea Flower Show

Garden writer Alys Fowler discusses this year's Chelsea Flower Show.

7 years ago
Cacti | The Will to Survive

Nature writer Matt Collins explores how cacti have adapted to survive in

7 years ago
An Interview with the Founder of Conservatory Archives

Jin Ahn is the founder of Conservatory Archives a plant store situated on

7 years ago
Field Guides

Field guides ideally pocket sized, well thumbed, perhaps ink-stained or

7 years ago
New Found Rituals | Celebrating the Winter Solstice

A handful of swimmers gathered at sunrise on the bank of the river, meeting in

7 years ago
A Winter Journey

Late on a midweek evening in winter, five years ago, I came to Euston

7 years ago
Stargazing

The festive season, with all its sparkle, is soon to be upon us. But rather

8 years ago
A Winter Garden | Hauser & Wirth

Matt Collins visits the garden at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset Cut down

8 years ago
Shinrin Yoku | A Japanese Tradition

Japanese tradition devotes an entire philosophy to time spent in

8 years ago
Treefolds | An Art Project in The Cumbrian Fells

Every tree begins with a small seed, and so it is with ideas: from the smallest

8 years ago
Kokedama | TOAST Shop Windows

This month the TOAST shop windows are filled with kokedama. Our regular nature

8 years ago
Autumn Flowers | Flower Appreciation Society Tips

We asked the Flower Appreciation Society - our favourite London florists - to

8 years ago
London's Head Gardeners

There's an understandable level of miscomprehension surrounding the occupation

8 years ago
Right Place, Right Plant

John Stewart Collis, mid century biographer, inadvertent nature writer and

8 years ago
Walking Through Midsummer

Journal notes, Little Asby Hawthorn, June 17, 9.25pm: Grass dancing over

8 years ago