Easy-care evergreen pots to add interest and structure to your garden all year round. 10+ plant choices for evergreen trees, shrubs and grasses for pots. Give it a whole growing season before you make changes. Don’t be in a hurry to slash and burn. You may inadvertently take out something that could have been a godsend.’ Both sets [of grandparents] were brilliant to me. They loved gardening and their gardens felt a safe, happy place to be.” A feeling that has stayed with him. Transform your garden with these easy DIY tips and creative ideas. From a bare yard to a flower-filled space – all on a budget! The first time the camera crew turned up, Ash was straight out here, and ever since he knows exactly when to appear,” says Adam.

Be prepared to experiment. “Treat gardening as one big experiment. I am happy to break the rules, which are just guidance, not Gospel. Gardeners are forever changing things, we’re just catching the moments.”You might think that a garden designer would prioritise creating a wonderful garden before anything else. Adam’s day job is garden design, but this year he is doing 20 days of filming for GW, five of them as its host. He will be presenting at Chelsea, Tatton and Hampton Court flower shows, and at the GW Live show in August. He is an RHS ambassador and is working on two books: one on DIY garden projects, and the other on how to get more from your outdoor space, both to be published in 2022. When we moved into our house, I walked the space every evening and every morning, so that I really understood it.’

This certainly resonates with me. When we first moved in, we were determined to get rid of a large cypress ‘Leylandii’. Adam was born in Essex, but when he was 15, his family moved down to Devon. Speaking about that time in his life, he said: "It was hard to leave everything I'd known. My relationship with my father wasn't great, I disengaged with education and by 16 I'd moved out, looking for a job." Adam suggests summing up your garden with a word. It could be ‘calm’ or ‘romantic’. ‘Then,’ he says, ‘assess something you want to buy against that word. Tell yourself that if it’s not ‘romantic’ or ‘calm’, then it’s not coming home.’ Finally… It is only early days in this garden, but as you can imagine my head is buzzing with ideas,' Adam previously told Gardeners' World viewers. 'I've started my veg garden and I think the first thing I want to do over the next couple of months is go and visit other veg gardens to get some inspiration. Here, it's just about slowing down, seeing what comes out of the ground and then we can work out how to move forward.'Enjoying your garden is about more than just what you grow; it's also about why you grow it. As well as spending time outdoors, the meaning of a garden lies in what you bring inside, from vegetables and herbs to make a family meal to flowers and seedheads to decorate the house. Adam explores how his own garden has allowed him to enjoy the simple pleasures in life and create precious memories - whether it's coming down in the morning and seeing that single flower in a vase or teaching your kids how to make the runner bean chutney that reminds you of your nan. Adam's inspiring book will guide you through all you need to make your garden thrive, and to use it to develop your own traditions and meaningful moments. After his debut at the RHS Chelsea Garden in 2007, he has gardened for the likes of Land’s End, QVC, Honda, Volkswagen and even designed the Homebase garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013. As an unhappy child, Adam escaped as much as he could to his grandparents. It was from them, rather than his landscape gardener father, that his love of gardening started. Stone, Deborah (20 November 2015). "Homebase gives students chance to study with designer Adam Frost". Don’t chase the dream that it’s got to be perfect all summer,’ says Adam. ‘Enjoy the moments, find your own way, and don’t worry about what anyone else thinks.’

First you have your mature trees – your oaks and beeches. Then there are the smaller, younger trees.’ He recalled that after leaving the family home, his "only choices were joining the army, becoming a chef or doing gardening work". While he very nearly joined the army, he managed to secure a job at Devon Parks, where his passion for gardening was ignited. When he was 21, he landed his big break after being hired by legendary Gardeners' World presenter Geoff Hamilton to help out his Barnsdale garden. Geoff said that if everyone gardened, the world would be a more peaceful place and he was right.” At that time, Adam had no wish to emulate Hamilton’s TV career and his slot on GW was blink and you’d miss it. “Geoff needed someone to walk on set carrying a tree, lower it into a hole, then walk off again.” Good gardens have the right amount of layers,’ he says. He believes that a good garden in the UK ‘reflects an English woodland. A woodland naturally has four layers.’ Adam met his wife Sulina in the 1990s when she was working as a manager at John Lewis. The pair share four children - two sons called Jacob and Oakley and two daughters Abi-Jade and Amber-Lily.

He told the publication: "I was sat in front of a psychiatrist and a doctor and said, 'You know, I've got burn-out and depression,' which was a surprise as I only went into the room with Covid. The wheels came off a little bit."

He also runs a garden school at Villa Farm, and is horticultural adviser to his wife Sulina’s garden boutique. The garden is managed by Adam, Sulina, their new gardener Luke and whichever of their four children are to hand. Presenters: Aasmah Mir, Luke Jones; Producer: Louise Corley; Editor: Beverley Purcell (20 April 2019). "Patti Boulaye". Saturday Live. 46:16 minutes in. BBC. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 26 April 2019. What I’d love to do is to take a group of disenchanted kids who are probably using their local parks for all the wrong reasons and turn a neglected park into a beautiful garden with them,” he says. While he is known and loved for his gardening skills on the popular BBC show, Adam Frost has also been incredibly open about his physical and mental health battles and that of his family's too. Here, we take a look at how Adam Frost came to be in the gardening spotlight and his journey along the way. Who is Adam Frost?Adam Frost first appeared on the show in 2016 as a co-presenter alongside Monty Don and has loved gardening since he was a child. Speaking to Lorraine last Friday, he said: "I spent a lot of time with my grandparents...classic 70s lawn, greenhouse at the end, run down in the morning, open up and get the tomatoes...from the moment it was light and you could get your trousers on to the moment it was dark, I was out." After the three of them fell gravely ill, it became a "stark reminder that there are other things in life" and so they moved home, downsizing to a smaller house. Adam had been seen tending to the beautiful garden at Villa Farm on television in the five years prior, and while "it was great with the house and the garden", he said: "Actually, what we realised was that it was great when everybody was well." I don’t dig up dahlias to store them at the end of the summer. And before you dig your dahlias up, it’s important to know the pros and cons. You… When I first met her she looked like she’d just come off the make-up counter at John Lewis. I don’t think she even knew what a landscape gardener was.