Botanic Shed

Botanic Shed Botanic Shed creates sanctuaries - we are a community of gardeners and healers developing gardens and running events. Lara Cowan

Through expert design, consultancy, and nature-based experiences, we reconnect people with the healing power of the natural world. Botanic Shed membership will help you move towards a brighter future, by focusing on the power of nature. You will collaborate with world-class members, and learn to heal and grow through a range of nature-based therapies and ideas. Through nature connection, we hope to help you to build new neurological pathways to sooth your mind and protect your well-being whilst empowering your existing personal strengths. "If every person could take a non-negotiable 1 hour out of each day and spend it outdoors in nature, deepening that innate connection we have with it then stress and depression levels would plummet."

Frosty blue skies Brown crunchy leavesSilver artichoke handsSimple spirit liftSeems to me the galaxy is callingConnectio...
04/01/2026

Frosty blue skies
Brown crunchy leaves
Silver artichoke hands
Simple spirit lift
Seems to me the galaxy is calling
Connection with Mother Earth is what we need

Happy Full Moon to you. This season is seeking nourishment and grounding not urgency. Work on moments, minutes, hours o...
03/01/2026

Happy Full Moon to you.
This season is seeking nourishment and grounding not urgency. Work on moments, minutes, hours of keeping your body connected to nature. Out of your head and into your whole body connection to nature. Amen. 🤍🌝
Sending love on this Wolf Moon.
Crystals and water are charging up under her magical glow.
I laid a bed under the incredibly bright and star filled night …rather cold but totally wonderful out there.

Happy Full Moon to you. This season is seeking nourishment and grounding not urgency. Work on moments, minutes, hours ...
03/01/2026

Happy Full Moon to you.
This season is seeking nourishment and grounding not urgency. Work on moments, minutes, hours of keeping your body connected to nature. Out of your head and into your whole body connection to nature. Amen. 🤍🌝
Sending love on this Wolf Moon.
Crystals and water are charging up under her magical glow.
I laid a bed under the incredibly bright and star filled night …rather cold but totally wonderful out there.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang anyone?Walking into the drawing room to see this on TV makes me feel like everything is OK…throw...
02/01/2026

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang anyone?
Walking into the drawing room to see this on TV makes me feel like everything is OK…throw back to being a child at home with Mum, Dad, Nina, Johnny and Molly. This was on repeat over Christmas back in the 80’s!

We couldn’t have said it better
01/01/2026

We couldn’t have said it better

Sustenance is sweet treats and plants. My niece and I made a Cherry, Pistachio Pavlova tower after a bit of work in the ...
31/12/2025

Sustenance is sweet treats and plants.
My niece and I made a Cherry, Pistachio Pavlova tower after a bit of work in the glass house at Weald Manor. She was incredibly helpful and strong for a four year old. See next pics and Haopy New Year!

Sense and Sensibility in Bampton.
31/12/2025

Sense and Sensibility in Bampton.

Every one of you is precious. Happy Christmas Eve. XX
24/12/2025

Every one of you is precious. Happy Christmas Eve. XX

Carols at St Mary’s Swinbrook ❤️
22/12/2025

Carols at St Mary’s Swinbrook ❤️

✨ Today ✨ As the sun begins to illuminate our days for longer and we emerge out of winter’s darkness. Gratitude for the ...
21/12/2025

✨ Today ✨ As the sun begins to illuminate our days for longer and we emerge out of winter’s darkness. Gratitude for the light naturally rises ➡️ Spring is on its way 🌷 This is a moment to pause and truly reflect on the state of nature 🌱

We are lucky to still witness life’s natural beauty. And yet why do we long for nature while continuing to destroy it? 🥀

📆 In just fifty years, over two thirds of the animal population has been wiped out. The natural world must be repaid for all that we have taken 🕊️

As a family, a community, we can still make a difference 👇🏻

❄️ Talk about, educate & protect natures gifts
🏡 Avoid using pesticides in the garden, chemicals in the home.
🎄 Look to next year, Christmas can be about giving back to nature. Just imagine if all of the 310 million online buyers of amazon gave to nature instead of paying to destroy her?

Let the gratitude you have for winter solstice continue into 2026 and over the decades you have on Earth to form a new source of power to protect Mother Earth 🌎

So tell me, what are you going to do to celebrate Winter Solstice? 🌞

It can be simple. Look at your garden - leave the fallen leaves - don’t bag them up and throw them away; harness their power and let your garden thrive from them 🍂

Millions of tiny actions are needed. Small is beautiful, start there. 💚

Can anyone explain to me how we got to 18th December?Flicking through my November days in photos I realise just how much...
18/12/2025

Can anyone explain to me how we got to 18th December?
Flicking through my November days in photos I realise just how much I pack in to the days. Is that what makes time go so fast?
November memories:
1. I helped host a rewilding event at the Admiral Coddrington in Chelsea - this is us with fellow nature worshipper
2. All about bulbs all through the month
3. Foraging in Fairford with my nephew who has fallen for the charms of ground elder as a super food.
4. Weekend away in Wiltshire with Tey and a puppy!
5. Landscaping progress on a garden design site in Bucklebury, Berkshire
6. Flu got me down for two days—herbal and mushroom teas and tinctures revived me
7. Bespoke wreath making…added burnt orange ribbons my new fave
8. Christmas cake mix
9. Evening bliss working with foliage making Xmas decs
10. Edie’s magnificent dress and so much fun dancing at her 40th birthday
11. Cross country at with Mum
12. Thyme Christmas market with Nina and Tanya
13. Stayed the night with my Uncle and Aunt Richard and Sue Cowan for the first time ever and it felt so incredibly safe!
14. Speed date in All Saints Road with the country ranger Clare
15. Decorations at Tehya’s house in Shepherds Bush.
16. Cosy times with Rose
17. Jaw dropping, car stopping poppy art in Sussex
18. Chestnut pailing fence - my fave
19. Final designs presented at Great Dixter
20. One event I did miss because I had flu - the book tour stop in Chipping Norton…darn it! In this enchanting follow-up to Nightwalking, John Lewis-Stempel once again ventures out into the night with ‘Nightlife’.

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