Adam Frost, Scruffy Nan, Tidy Nan and a life-long love of gardening

As you will discover, it all started with Scruffy Nan and with Tidy Nan – two characters Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost will bring to life when he goes on the road with his show An Evening With Adam Frost this autumn.

An award-winning garden designer, Adam is promising great advice and amusing stories from a lifetime in the garden. Best known for his successes at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Adam will explore his love for the great outdoors. He will be at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre on October 30.

“This was something that was suggested to me and I laughed and thought who on earth would come and see me but then slowly I started to think that yes, I have got a story to tell and eight or nine months later here we are. It's basically my life in gardening.

"I started my gardening with my grandparents and then I moved from north London to north Devon and then I left school and then I got job in gardening and I suppose I've ducked and dived over the years and I've got myself in a few pickles along the way but if you put it all together, it is a story. I've done public speaking and I suppose I've told parts of the story before and somebody who heard me suggested that we put this together.

“I had quite a complicated childhood. I spent quite a lot of time with Scruffy Nan and Tidy Nan. I called them that in my head but I didn't call them that to their faces! But they were both gar