TOAST Magazine

Land & Garden

Exploring our relationship with nature. From sleeping under the stars and reconnecting with the land to growing produce and creating a garden.
Inside the Kew Herbarium

The extraordinary legacy of a pressed flower.

2 years ago
Worm | A Floral Design Studio

We meet the team behind the flowers.

3 years ago
Alys Fowler at Chelsea Flower Show | 2019

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

3 years ago
Dartmoor's Pygmy Forest

Matt Collins explores this dramatic, ancient forest.

3 years ago
Autumn's Asters

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

3 years ago
The Delights of Seed Swapping

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

4 years ago
Alys Fowler at Chelsea Flower Show

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

4 years ago
Cacti | The Will to Survive

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

4 years ago
An Interview with the Founder of Conservatory Archives

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

4 years ago
Field Guides

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

4 years ago
A Winter Journey

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

4 years ago
A Winter Garden | Hauser & Wirth

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

4 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

4 years ago
Kokedama | TOAST Shop Windows

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

5 years ago
Autumn Flowers | Flower Appreciation Society Tips

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

5 years ago
London's Head Gardeners

There's an understandable level of miscomprehension surrounding the occupation

5 years ago
Right Place, Right Plant

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

5 years ago
Walking Through Midsummer

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

5 years ago
Alys Fowler at Chelsea Flower Show

I have decided that Chelsea Flower Show is a surrealist experience - one you

5 years ago
Science & Artifice

Artificial meat. Hmm. A burger made in a petri dish. Not entirely inspiring.

5 years ago
Swifts

One of my lengthier commutes while living in London consumed the better part of

5 years ago
In Pursuit of Spring

February and March are full of trickery. By the close of winter we're hardwired

5 years ago
Island Growing

I was 25 when I first visited the Welsh island of Caldey. Having spent the

5 years ago
Driftwood Installation

Nigel Peterken is a native Kiwi, now residing in the South of England. He is a

5 years ago