Gardener’s World: How I Garden: Easy ideas & inspiration for making beautiful gardens anywhere

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And finally you get the lowest level – the snowdrops, bluebells, anemones and more. This is your bulb layer.’

He began his first gardening role as an apprentice at the North Devon Parks Department before moving to Barnsdale Gardens in Rutland to serve as landscape manager to former Gardener's World presenter Geoff Hamilton, who fronted the show in the 1980s and 1990s. During this time, he built and tended to many of the gardens seen in Gardener's World.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?

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.”Adam’s talk to the Painter’s Forstal Gardening Club was enormously enjoyable and helpful, too. You can find out more about his garden design service, garden school and availability for talks on adamfrost.co.uk It’s a lifestyle Adam and Sulina have created from a determination that their own children – Abbie-Jade, 24; Jacob, 22; Amber-Lily, 16; and Oakley, 14 – would not suffer the unsettled upbringing he endured. 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. Read more Details 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.’ I’ll go into the ground when my time is up, still knowing only half of what I could know because [in gardening] you just carry on learning, especially as the environment changes.” While his own children have yet to show an interest in a horticultural or TV career, Sulina is a convert.

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… 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. The problem is exacerbated by modern impatience. “We’ve created a society where if you want something you can have it straight away. One of the most beautiful things for me in a garden is that it does things at its own pace and you have to fall in with that. 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.”When we moved into our house, I walked the space every evening and every morning, so that I really understood it.’ I can see what he means. Think about a garden you’ve seen that doesn’t have any mature trees – just shrubs and herbaceous plants. It doesn’t feel right, does it? It’s all about the soil