Garden designer and BBC Gardeners World presenter Adam Frost on how to redesign your garden. Inspiring and practical ideas from one of the UK’s top garden designers.
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Adam Frost is a seven-times Gold medal winner at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and he also runs the Adam Frost Gardening School.
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Very interesting tips. Thanks Alexandra. I really like the layers idea. Maybe one can add another layer under the bulbs layer – mulch, fallen leaves or creeping ground covers, for example? They add to the overall landscape.
Filling gaps with contrasting foliage, as Adam suggests, is a useful way to approach filling gaps. I always find filling gaps difficult because the plants on either side are often capable of filling the gaps in time, through further growth. The garden designer who redesigned our front garden two years ago did not want to fill gaps for that very reason. In fact, she said, "Oh I don't believe in having a stuffed garden" (it sounded quite funny!). She also said that shrubs would grow to meet one another and knit together. However I sometimes found the gaps too stark and filled them anyway, later moving them (or even consigning them to the compost heap, I'm afraid). I think the garden owner has the last say – "to fill, or not to fill". 🙂
Great tips although I won't be waiting a full year to do anything to the garden. It's funny how green thumbs always give that advice but few of us actually follow it 😉
What an interesting video! I've made the mistakes of not 'listening to the land', planting impulsively, not considering the long term outcome. I've changed. I had to. Now when I am in my garden, my soul seems to rest, and any wildlife that joins me I take as a compliment. Such great advice! I wished I found your channel sooner than I did.
Fantastic video!!! The tips given are just perfect. As a new gardener I’m discovering many new things on my own. One has been layers and what took me back was how this great gardener finds his inspiration in the woods or forest because I’ve been paying attention a lot to our woodland areas around here. I’ve been asked to do a video on layers because I always speak how important they are specially in a small garden like mine I believe it not only makes it fuller but a more mature look. I don’t believe I’m ready at all to give such great advice as on your video but I will be explaining my experience and why to me it’s important. How I love your channel wonderful information. Have a beautiful day.💚💚💚💚💚💚
Great video
fantastic tips from Adam Frost! great!! "Enjoy those little moments your garden will give you"!
Great tips 👍
Love your content! When I bought this home a couple years ago it was a jungle of grasses and weeds and had lost all but one tree but I took the same advice and this is the year I start implementing my plan. I’ve lived with almost no landscape other than the oak and two crepe myrtle which are so over used in the southern United States. Thanks for all your efforts!!
“Every garden has a microclimate.” That is so true. I made that point in my recent video “Flower Empowerment Sun or Shade.” 🌼🌿
Great advice! Wait for a whole growing season, study your garden, watch where the sun rises, as it changes during the year, watch the shadows made by the buildings and by the trees, as they're much longer or shorter as the seasons go by.
Alexandra, thank you so much for all your videos! I have been hooked since our offer for our next house got accepted. It is a North East facing garden with one fairly mature tree and lots of ivy spilling in from the neighbours garden. This video really helps me have the courage of my convictions in just holding the brakes on any major upheaval until we get to know the garden much better. Thank you again ❤
Great video, Alexandra!
Very helpful garden tip, I'm going to roll around in my garden as soon as I can, let's be YouTube mate?
Enjoyed this
You have a beautiful garden.
Absolutely wonderful, so it is no wonder that both of you look and sound so happy. Gardens, bring out the best in all of us, as we explore our imaginations and plant in the way nature intended, thank you so very much. xx
Anyone know the name of the flower at 5:13?
A word to sum up my garden? That's tough!
*Vegetables
*Heirloom plants
*Native plants
*Raised beds
*Clothes line
*Lawn
*House built 1935
=pre-war garden
Love that idea of having a word that describes how you want your garden to feel or look and basing purchases around that word.
I was so sorry (under statement of the Decade) to see on 'GW' that Adam Frost has sold his stunningly beautiful garden. 😭 It is noone's business but there must be a backstory to this, ie more than "wanting to spend time with Family". I have not been able to stop thinkimg about the loss of that beautiful property. 😭😭😭