About For the Love of Plants and Gardens: Adam Frost and Poppy Okotcha
Meet two gardeners who are not only full of practical advice but combine their garden knowledge with a deeply personal take on how looking after a patch of land can not only grow us as individuals, but can also help to grow a better world.
Garden designer and Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost explores the themes of his book For the Love of Plants – a very personal wander through his own garden and a reflection on the plants that have shaped his life. And in A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us, Poppy Okotcha writes about her relationship with her wild little garden in Devon, working with the seasons and nature, and how the small joys of engaging with the natural world are imperative for our physical and emotional wellbeing.
Adam and Poppy are in conversation with Sally Flatman host of the podcast Our Plant Stories.
Followed by a book signing.
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About the panel
Adam Frost is an award-winning British garden designer and presenter on Gardeners’ World. He regularly presents the BBC’s coverage of the RHS Flower Shows and has featured on The One Show, DIY SOS and The Alan Titchmarsh Show. He also hosts the Gardener’s World Podcast Adam Frost Grows and Cooks. As well as running his own garden design and landscape business he also sits on the board for the Horticulture Trades Association, is an RHS Ambassador and until 2022 he ran The Adam Frost Garden School where he hosted masterclasses on design and other gardening courses. He is passionate about the relationship between gardening and mental health.
Poppy Okotcha is a trained horticulturist and regenerative grower, passionate about inspiring people to engage with and connect to the natural world. With her joyful Instagram content, Poppy teaches people how to grow and forage their own food, whilst living and eating consciously – for personal, community and planetary health. As a young black woman, Poppy also advocates for those who are underrepresented and marginalised in the world of horticulture and environmentalism. Poppy has been featured on BBC 2’s Gardeners’ World, and is a regular contributor to the Royal Horticultural Society podcast. She was also the ecological expert on Channel 4’s TheGreat Garden Revolution. @poppy.okotcha
Sally Flatman presents and produces the podcast Our Plant Stories. A former BBC Radio producer the podcast brings together twin passions for audio and plants in the form of storytelling. Plants tell wonderful stories about people and places. Sally is also a trustee of the charity Plant Heritage and a member of the Garden Media Guild.
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