Bloom is as gorgeous as the plants and flowers that grace its cover. This one is lovely to read and lovely to apply; you can curl up and read it with a coffee, or you can take it outside and design a wildflower garden, a compost pit, or a living willow arch.

Since its first edition in 2014, Bristol-based independent magazine Ernest has taken us on slow, curiosity-driven adventures. It’s packed with inspiration and roams widely through subjects such as art, conservation, history, books, modern-day craftsmanship, and even cartography. Ernest meanders, takes its time, and circles back, all the in pursuit of the natural world.

Like a high-end fashion magazine, but for garden lovers. Here plants and flowers are styled, the centerpiece of elaborate and surprising arrangements. This is not nature given its usual treatment but approached through an artistic, innovative, and often playful lens. A contemporary gardening magazine with a spade-driven twist. 

This magazine-meant-to-last tells the stories of those who connect to, work with, live around and share a love of nature, and how we might do so too. Full of inspirational interviews and stunning photography, it’s the magazine to seek out if you are looking to develop your relationship with the natural world.

During a year when everything changed for humans, this documentary also reveals the extent to which it changed for the wildlife that we share our planet with. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, The Year Earth Changed shows us how the empty cities, the streetscapes devoid of cars, and the oceans no longer hosting cruise ships, created the space for animals as varied as penguins, whales, and cheetahs to thrive. With extraordinary images of vacated human landscapes, and animals resurging across five continents, this documentary leaves viewers with a sense of the interconnectedness of humans and nature.

Burned-out documentary maker Craig Foster goes back to the South African rock pools he swam in as a boy. When he spots a red octopus disguising its shape, he wants to learn more and soon becomes enthralled by their interactions. “What happens,” he wonders, “if I went every day?” Striking in its filmmaking, and intriguing in its subject matter, My Octopus Teacher is a luminous meditation on connection and the powerful embrace of nature when we’re open to it.

Slowly unfolding. The story. The characters. The land. This isn’t a film that reveals itself with heavy hits and dramatic moments, but over time and by inches. Like the tale it tells — the painstaking excavation of the burial mounds at Sutton Hoo. Nature wraps history within its folds, and if we’re lucky it reveals it to us again.

Taylor Swift’s Folklore (with The National & Bon Iver), and the studio sessions at the Long Pond Studio Sessions, makes us think of long country walks, overcast skies and warm fires, and the self-reflection, stories, and emotions that go with all of that. Written at the height of the lockdown and produced while apart, the album reflects that pause of pandemic days. Album as ‘flotation device’, it’s about figuring out how to get away and how to stay, what to keep and what to leave behind, how to go places in our heads and stay in our bodies - all the things on our minds in 2020 and beyond.