Gardeners Unearthed: April 2020

Adam Frost

Adam Frost is a Gardener, Award Winning Garden Landscape Designer, Author, and Presenter on Gardeners' World who was born in September 1969.

His early gardening experience came from helping his grandparents in their gardens and allotment.

Adam spent a large part of his childhood living with both sets of grandparents.

When he was 15 his family moved from Harlow, Essex, to Devon and this caused him to lose interest in school and he left home to start working.

Branching out

Adam's early gardening experience included working for the parks department.

At the age of 21, Adam became an assistant to the late, great Geoff Hamilton, helping him with small gardens in Barnsdale Gardens, Rutland.

He even appeared on Gardeners' World!

After Geoff died, Adam Frost set up his own landscape company and progressed to running his own garden courses and garden design business.

From little acorns

Adam has won 7 Gold Medals and 1 Silver (should have been Gold) at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

He launched the Homebase Garden Academy in 2013 with his Chelsea sponsor, Homebase.

In 2016, Adam Frost joined Gardeners' World alongside Monty Don as a presenter.

Adam Frost's stunning 4 acre garden appeared in the show.

As we followed his progress in the garden, we saw him create new borders, a breakfast terrace, a gravel garden and his stunning walled kitchen garden, we were all envious of.

Adam became a popular presenter of Gardeners' World, often standing in to present the programme from his own garden when Monty was off.

Adam Frost and Ash

Adam was not alone, though he too had his own pets to feature on the programme, the most popular of them was Ash the Cat who likes to steal the limelight.

His other pets including his dogs all feature in The animal co-stars of Gardeners' World.

This was not only the reason Adam Frost was much talked about at the time.

It was also because he uses an unusual trowel like tool on Gardener's World called a Great Dixter Planting Spade.

In March 2017, The Adam Frost Garden School opened in Lincolnshire in a building in his own garden offering gardening skills and garden design courses.

Unfortunately, during the Covid-19 pandemic the Garden School along with lots of other businesses had to temporary close.

Adam Frost kept from the viewers at the time the problems his family were having when his wife Sulina fell seriously ill and other problems within the family led to Adam having Mental Health problems.

As this is a gardening post about Adam and it has been spoken about by himself since in various articles I will not elaborate on his family's private life.

Adam however, is now very open about his own health and his struggles with Fibromyalgia.

He also talks about his burnout and depression following the closure of his Garden School and his worries over his family.

This change resulted in a house move from the large 4 acre garden to a much smaller property and garden that surprised us all in Gardeners' World 2022

In the new garden he created 2 terraces on the small sloped plot that rose in height of over 2 metres from the bottom to the top.

At the bottom he created a seating area and on the terrace a wildlife lawn, there was a greenhouse and a gravel garden on a much smaller scale this time.

Adam and Buster

Adam introduced us to a new pet when Buster a Miniature Dachshund pup first appeared in Gardeners' World 2025. He proved to be just as show stealing as Ash.

Buster's best performance on Gardeners' World was to be seen in a shot of a totally oblivious Adam watering by cocking his leg up a plant in the background.

This garden brought Adam a break from the pressure of running a business from home as well as a very large garden.

Adam Frost has a new surprise for viewers of Gardeners' World 2026. He has moved house again and has a brand new garden planned to share with us.

There has been glimpses of Adam new garden on his Instagram and it includes the construction of some dry stone walls and lots of earth moving!

Another big change (well for Ash the Cat) is that Adam Frost has 2 new kittens called Fern and Taxus.

Adam has also hinted there may be more new additions of the Dog variety!

Adam Frost Website offers online Garden courses during the Winter, details of any Book Tours or book signing appearances as well as details for his Garden Design Business.

Adam also presents on RHS Flower Shows coverage, appears on BBC Morning Live and writes for Gardeners' World Magazine as well as has a Podcast.

Adam is married to wife Sulina they have 4 children Abi-Jade, Jacob, Amber-Lily, Oakley and various pets including the ancient cat Ash and Dog Buster, which features on Gardeners' World.

Adam Frost Show Gardens

2007 Realistic Retreat - Gold Medal

2008 A Welcome Sight - Gold Medal, Best Urban Garden

2009 The QVC Garden - Silver Medal

2011 The Lands' End - Across the Pond - Gold Medal

2012 The Lands' End A Royal Muse - Gold Medal

2013 Homebase Garden - Sowing the Seeds of Change - Gold Medal

2014 Homebase Garden - Time to Reflect - Gold Medal

2015 The Homebase Urban Retreat Garden - Gold Medal

Adam Frost Awards

2014 RHS Ambassador

Adam Frost TV Programmes