The garden whispers to me as I tend its edges,
“What does your soul need?”
Composting, my thoughts with my muddy hands and the fresh soft air in my lungs, I answer,
“It needs this”
We all need something for our souls. A way of communicating with ourselves, the world and a way to understand what brings us peace, safety and a way for our creativity to thrive, and thus feed our soul. The cycle continues, what we sow, seeds, and what we seed grows, if only we nourish it.
This is our ecosystem. And we need more than ourselves to survive.
By understanding what we need, we can reconnect with our deeper nature. And by reconnecting, we can remember WE ARE NATURE.
I didn’t always know this consciously; it takes gentle listening, and sometimes a sharp prodding, to be reminded, and I am still remembering.
My soil is made up of an inherent need to protect, nourish and co-create, to support deep roots that grow into magic above the surface. To always breathe life into existence, and existence into life.
My seeds, like whispers, creep into the crevices seeking enrichment, navigating from dark to light, to root, to bloom, and reseed. To always create to live and live to create.
My harvest, I learn, I share, I grow. What I grow, I give. I need more than myself to thrive.
Hello there, you gorgeous human, I’m Sam.
A writer, photographer, and wild gardener exploring the relationship between imagination, the inner self, and the natural world. Through poetry, visual stories, and earth-rooted practices, I invite deeper connection and creative advocacy for both people and planet.
At the heart of my creative practice is an immersive interaction with the living world and the stories it gifts me. My work with photography and writing acts as a way of noticing - of honouring the beauty, complexity, and quiet resilience of Nature.
My Wild Garden is both a sanctuary and a teacher, a place where I observe, learn and draw inspiration for everything I create. It fuels my art and my advocacy - a growing part of my work that speaks to the urgent need to reconnect with and protect the more-than-human world.
From an early age, I craved the feeling of being immersed in Nature, transported to a world that felt calm and free and fed my curiosity endlessly. Life’s been a stumble, and it has taken me a little while to find my way back to the freckly wild child I used to be.
I put my trust in my imagination to show me the way and overcome any challenge. You will find that play, curiosity and compassion (with a little directive kick) will always be my way of adventuring with you.
Creativity has given me a way to release, share and grow in a way I had forgotten about. It has brought me back to myself and helped me become the woman I thought I could only ever be inspired to be.
Alongside my own work, I hold space for others to listen, learn and grow - in their connection to the natural world, and in their capacity to advocate for it and for themselves.
You’ll find stories and shares in these places:
I want this to be a space where we stretch our comfort zones together. I’ll take a step, hold out my hand, and you can take a step too.
As the garden whispers, we will get wilder.
Now it is time to welcome you inside, well, outside mostly. Are you coming?
With Love & Magic,
I invite you to sneak in through the hole in the garden wall and join me as I wander in my wild garden. Meet the residents, and learn to bloom like the seeds I planted with love. We’ll hang out by the fire and warm our hearts, while we put the world to rights and get our daily exercise through belly laughs and a little digging. Yes, we will be muddy, out in all weathers and watching our creations impatiently until they flourish and take us with them as they run to seed and catch the wind.
Why subscribe?
When you sneak in through the gap in the garden wall (via my free or one of my paid subscriptions), you will receive all my posts and adventures directly in your inbox. Through the Substack App, you curate your library from writers who inspire and inform you - with no distractions!
All subscribers get monthly ‘Sunday Whispers’ from my wild garden, and access to my Messy & Glorious podcast archive.
If you are able, please upgrade to a paid subscription it works out at £1 a week.
Paid subscriber adventures include:
“Inside the Wild Garden”
Subscriber only posts
Early Bird access to classes
Plus whatever my imagination conjures and invites us to explore next.
If you choose a Founding Member annual subscription you will receive everything from “Inside the Wild Garden” and one Wild Creative 121 on Zoom with Sam.
Whichever way you choose to explore with me, I’m excited to get to know you and I value your support by simply being here with me on this magical adventure.
If you have a question:
I may be off on adventures in the real world, but I will endeavour to respond to any questions you have via email.
