Adam has created several spaces to sit and be creative in his glorious 1.2-hectare Lincolnshire garden
There's something in the air and it's not just the uplifting scent of spring. Garden designer and BBC Gardeners' World presenter Adam Frost is quietly making changes in his own little parcel of England.
As our gardens and green spaces burst into joyous riots of colour, it's a good time to take stock and appreciate what we've got in the here and now. “Enjoying the moment," as Adam puts it, “and not the race to get wherever we're going.” It's a familiar outlook since the pandemic began. “We talk a lot about that now, being in the moment, but how many of us actually do that?" he says. “That connection with our environment, the outdoors, nature...
that's it for me." Adam's latest book, The Creative Gardener, featuring more than 20 projects for all types of gardens, is about enjoying hands-on processes rather than the end result. It was written during the Covid lockdowns, so, perhaps unsurprisingly, became focused on time: past, present and future. “I am handy,” Adam says. “I wasn't good at school, academically. One of my grandads was a gun engineer, my old man was a landscaper, and my Uncle Greg was forever doing bits and pieces with me. I'm happiest using my hands. It's not necessarily the outcome, it's the doing: feeling woodgrain under fingertips, the satisfaction of knocking a nail in."
Adam's new book The Creative Gardener includes step-by-step tips on how to create stunning displays of potted plants
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