When asked if there was one thing he’d like to see removed from gardens, he said: “If there was one thing I would like to forget it’s those large plastic chess sets that people put in their gardens.
“Oh my, they’re plastic, they take up too much space, you’re putting paving on the ground, you name it. If I said there was one thing in the garden that I hated, I can’t stand them.
“If you want to play chess in the garden, pick a board up and take it outside. That would be the one thing that I would get rid of.
“It’s probably a bizarre thing…you don’t need to take up too much room but environmentally, you’re wasting all of that area.”
Adam has recently opened up about how his love of plants helped him when he was “sat in front of a psychiatrist with depression and burnout”. He described some of the plants in his garden as “old friends”.
The Essex-born horticulturalist also says he has a love of pets. Adam and his wife Sulina share their Lincolnshire home with a cat, named Ash, and two dogs, Isla and Buster.
Adam admits that they tend to spoil their pets: “It’s got worse as we’ve got older,” he told 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.”
Miniature Jack Russell Buster joined the Frost household comparatively recently, with Adam explaining: “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.’”
The couple’s pets often end up stealing the show when Adam films from their countryside property. Adam recalled one unfortunate moment on-screen with the young pooch: “Buster decided to relieve himself behind me.
“I didn’t know it had happened,” he added, joking that the show’s edit team must have been in two minds about leaving the unscripted moment in the final broadcast version.
Adam will be returning to Gardeners’ World from 8pm on BBC Two tonight, where he will be learning about ornamental grasses. Meanwhile Monty Don will be creating a new woodland garden at his Longmeadow property in Herefordshire.
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