BBC Gardeners’ World expert Adam Frost has two dogs and a cat at home with his wife Sulina, with the couple admitting that they spoil their pets a little too much
Adam Frost(Image: BBC Gardeners’ World)
Adam Frost’s passion for plants is widely recognised. In an interview with Gardens Illustrated discussing his mental wellbeing, the Gardeners’ World presenter revealed that, whilst “sat in front of a psychiatrist with depression and burnout,” he referred to some of his plants as “old friends.”
However, it has now come to light that the Essex-born garden designer is equally devoted to animals. At his Stamford, Lincolnshire home, Adam and his wife Sulina share their lives with a cat called Ash and two dogs, Isla and Buster.
Adam acknowledges they have a tendency to pamper their pets. “It’s got worse as we’ve got older,” he confessed to The Times.
“I don’t think Mrs Frost would shout at me for saying she’s probably using them slightly as child replacements, with the fuss she makes of them.”
Celebrity gardener Adam Frost (Image: Southport Visiter)
Miniature Jack Russell Buster is the most recent addition to the Frost family, with Adam revealing: “To be fair, Buster partly arrived because my 18-year-old son said, ‘Dad, I think you need to get Mum something to care for,’ although he did follow that with, ‘Because she’s doing my head in,'” reports Gloucestershire Live.
The Frosts’ animals frequently upstage proceedings when Adam films Gardeners’ World segments from his three-acre rural garden. He remembered one occasion when, during a piece to camera, “Buster decided to relieve himself behind me.”
“I didn’t know it had happened,” he continued, suggesting the programme’s editing team probably debated whether to include the unplanned moment in the final broadcast. Adam’s feline companion, Ash, has a habit of using boxes of seedlings in the snug greenhouse as makeshift cat beds: “You go in and half of them are flat in the shape of a cat,” he shares.
Adam Frost with his wife Sulina(Image: INSTAGRAM/ADAMFROST)
With his latest tour wrapping up, Adam disclosed that he and Sulina are planning a well-deserved break. He also mentioned that any profits from his recent book, For the Love of Plants, “go towards Mrs Frost’s holiday fund, so she’s a very happy lady as well.”
Adam describes Sulina as being “a bit scary,” referring to the old adage that “behind every successful man is a strong woman,” and he told Yours magazine that there’s a slight twist when it comes to her.
He stated: “They always say behind every successful man is a strong woman. She’s more than strong, she’s a bit scary. The kids say she’s a lioness. If you’re unpleasant to me or the children, you end up with the wrath of Mrs Frost. We don’t want to cross Mrs Frost.”
Even in the garden, where one might assume Adam would have the final say, Sulina has voiced her own views. While Adam enjoys “gardening for wildlife,” Mrs Frost favours a neater plot.
He remembered discovering that a certain evergreen, which he thought looked perfectly fine, had been “trimmed back” by Sulina. Adam humorously refers to himself as “the most experienced understudy in the country.”
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