Get featured in Birds & Blooms
Backyard birding and gardening stories
We write a custom feature about you and manage the placement. You approve every word before it goes live.
- You approve every word
- Unlimited revisions
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How do I get featured in Birds & Blooms?
We develop your story, write the feature to editorial standard, and manage the placement. You approve every word before anything goes live.
About Birds & Blooms
Birds & Blooms is an American magazine and website about backyard birding and gardening, published by Trusted Media Brands, the company behind Reader's Digest and Taste of Home. Much of its content is shaped by readers' own photos, tips and stories.
Why a feature here matters
Birds & Blooms reaches a committed audience of backyard birders and gardeners, so a feature there puts you in front of people who actively look for feeders, plants, seed and garden ideas.
Best for: Garden centres and nurseries, makers of bird feeders and garden products, conservation and wildlife organisations, birding guides and destinations, and gardening and birding experts.
How coverage happens at Birds & Blooms
There are two ways in. You can approach Birds & Blooms yourself: share photos and backyard stories through the reader contribution route the magazine lists on its site, or contact its editors with a story idea using the details on its contact page. That route is free, but it is slow, and what is used is the editor's decision. The second way is to work with DNA. We develop the angle with you, write the feature to the magazine's standard, and manage the placement. You approve every word before it goes live, so nothing appears about you or your business that you have not signed off.
The kind of story that lands
Birds & Blooms is practical and warm in tone, and its readers want to do something in their own garden after reading. A feature fits when it helps readers attract birds, butterflies or pollinators, choose plants, or understand what they are seeing at the feeder. A nursery owner on native plants that feed birds through winter, a conservation group on how gardeners can help a declining species, or a birding guide on what to look for during migration all suit it. Strong pieces are specific, seasonal and useful, with clear advice a reader in the United States can act on. Heavy product promotion does not fit.
How to Get Featured in Birds & Blooms
There are two main ways to get featured in Birds & Blooms. Readers share photos and backyard stories through the contribution route the magazine lists on its site, and some of those are used in print or online. Businesses, experts and organisations with a story for birders and gardeners can approach the editors directly or have a feature developed and placed with professional help.
Sharing photos is free, and the editors decide what is used. DNA offers another way in for a business or expert: we develop the story with you, write it to the magazine's standard, manage the placement, and you approve every word before it goes live.
What Birds & Blooms is
Birds & Blooms is an American magazine and website devoted to backyard birding and gardening. It is published by Trusted Media Brands, which also publishes Reader's Digest and Taste of Home. The magazine has long been built around its readers: their photos of birds and gardens, their tips and their stories appear throughout, which gives it a friendly, community feel quite different from a specialist ornithology journal.
What Birds & Blooms covers
Coverage centres on attracting and identifying birds, bird feeding, birdhouses, hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinators, flowers and garden plants, and seasonal garden projects. Much of it is practical: which plants bring birds to a yard, what to put in a feeder, how to identify a new visitor. The website carries photo galleries, identification guides and how-to articles alongside material from the print magazine.
How to get featured in Birds & Blooms
For a business or expert, the starting point is usefulness. Birds & Blooms readers want ideas they can try at home, so a pitch should offer practical advice or a genuinely interesting story rather than a product announcement. Read recent issues and the website to see how pieces are framed, then contact the editors with a short, specific idea using the details on the magazine's contact page. Seasonal timing matters: magazines plan issues well ahead, so a spring planting idea needs to reach the editors long before spring.
How to submit photos to Birds & Blooms
People searching for how to submit to Birds & Blooms are usually readers with photos. The magazine invites readers to share bird, butterfly and garden photos and stories, and its site sets out how to do it and the terms that apply. Before sending anything:
- Read the current submission terms on the magazine's site, including any rights you grant.
- Send only photos you took yourself.
- Include a short note on what the photo shows and where it was taken.
- Choose sharp, well-lit images that show the bird or plant clearly.
How to get your photos published in Birds & Blooms
There is no way to be sure a photo will be used. The editors see a great many reader photos, and the ones that stand out tend to be sharp, natural and tied to a season or a moment: a cardinal at a feeder in snow, a hummingbird at a flower, a garden in full bloom. A short caption explaining what was happening helps an editor see the story behind the picture. The photo contests the magazine runs from time to time are another way readers' images reach its pages.
What makes a strong piece for Birds & Blooms
The best pieces are specific, seasonal and useful. A nursery owner on native shrubs that feed birds in winter, a wildlife charity on how gardeners can help a declining species, or a birding guide on what to watch for during autumn migration all suit the magazine. Advice should work for readers across the United States, or say clearly which regions it applies to. If your story is aimed at a much broader audience, a feature on MSN may be a better fit.
How the process works
With DNA, the work runs in four steps. We check whether your story genuinely helps birders and gardeners and tell you plainly if it does not. You share the substance: your expertise, the plants, birds or projects involved, and what readers can do. We draft the feature to the magazine's standard and revise it with you. Once you approve every word, we manage the placement and send you the live link.
How long it takes
Expect weeks rather than days for a feature, allowing time to agree the angle, draft and revise it, complete your review and manage the placement. Seasonal stories need more notice, and reader photos you send yourself depend entirely on the editors.
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Questions about Birds & Blooms
Is the Birds & Blooms coverage a real, published feature?
Yes. It is a genuine article published on the outlet, written about you and your work — not an ad you design yourself.
How long does it take?
Most placements take weeks rather than days. We give you a realistic timeline for Birds & Blooms before we start, and never promise a date we cannot control.
What if I am not happy with the draft?
You review and revise until it is right. Nothing publishes without your approval.
How do I submit photos to Birds & Blooms?
Use the reader photo route set out on the Birds & Blooms site, and read its current terms first. Send sharp photos you took yourself, with a short note on what they show and where they were taken.
How do I get my photos published in Birds & Blooms?
No photo is sure to be used, but sharp, natural, seasonal images with a short story behind them stand the best chance. Entering the photo contests the magazine runs from time to time is another route.
Can a business be featured in Birds & Blooms?
Yes, if the story is genuinely useful to birders and gardeners. Practical advice from a nursery, conservation group or birding expert fits far better than a product announcement.