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Frost in May

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Adam Frost appears on BBC Gardeners’ World, Fridays at 8pm on BBC Two

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.”

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