Landscape Magazine December 2025 + 32 Page Craft & Baking Guide

Inside this special Christmas issue of Landscape Magazine:

All the gardening, decoration, travel, craft and recipe guides you need for the festive season.

Gardening: Winter garden brimming with plants that look exotic but can survive a British winter.

Gardening & decoration: The front door at Christmas – traditions of decorating the front of the house to welcome guests. Ideas for wreaths and other outdoor decorations using plants and natural greenery

Exclusive cookery: 19 pages of mouthwatering recipes devised and photographed specifically for this issue that won’t have appeared in any other publication. Fillets in rich sauces to create a mouthwatering Christmas meal full of flavour but with less time and less waste. Christmas desserts and bakes flavoured with chocolate and orange. Soups for Boxing day made from leftovers such as brussels, pigs in blankets and roast veg and a jewelled potato salad scattered with ruby-red pomegranate seeds.

Travel: Christmas in the Anglo-Saxon town of Shrewsbury. The illuminated spires of Shrewsbury’s ancient churches rise above bustling shops and half-timbered buildings, as locals and visitors enjoy the town’s medieval charm.

Christmas heritage: The Tudor Cotehele House where volunteers make a vast Christmas garland of flowers every year.

Artist: An artist who’s work brings to life enchanting scenes of of fictional Christmas animals. Tiny mice, hedgehogs and owls, amongst other creatures feature in enchanting pen and ink scenes.

• Exclusive wood craft: DIY craft project to create a wooden snowy cottage decoration with step-by-step instructions made and photographed exclusively for this issue.
• Exclusive knitting pattern:  Pattern to knit a woolly Christmas tree
• Exclusive crochet pattern:  Pattern to crochet baubles from chunky yarn in frosty shades.
• Exclusive upcycled twinkling decorations: Golden decorations upcycled from a kitchen staple – tomato puree tubes.
• Man’s best friend : A celebration of the relationships between people and their pets with a fascinating look at the bond between humans and dogs.

Create Christmas Magic with the Landscape Craft and Baking Supplement

A special selection of much-loved baking and craft, from the LandScape archive, to create the perfect homemade Christmas. This will include sweet and savoury baking, and a mixture of crafts including knitting, papercraft and woodcraft. All the recipe content was originally developed by our own home economist and the crafts devised and made exclusively for LandScape.

Craft:

• Jolly log snowmen to greet festive visitors.
• Crocheted stars table runner
• Window shaped wreath from foraged greenery and berries.
• Decorated Christmas gift bags made from pillowcases.
• Hanging decorations and a tree topper made from upcycled clothes pegs.
• Knitted Christmas cottage tea cosy.

Cookery:

• Stilton and mushroom pastry parcel.
• Gingerbread and white chocolate trifle.
• Dundee cake.
• Christmas tree shaped mince pies on sticks.
• Snowy Christmas fudge.
• Sticky fig pudding.