Gardeners' World presenter Adam Frost has revealed his wife Sulina's surprising and rare reaction to his new podcast venture. The 56-year-old horticulturist, who co-hosts the BBC show alongside Monty Don, recently launched a podcast titled Outsiding with author Caitlin Moran. The programme features guests in Moran's north London garden discussing wildlife and gardening, with comedian Bob Mortimer appearing in the first episode.
Wife's Uncommon Praise
Reflecting on the first episode during an interview with Dermot O'Leary on BBC Radio 2, Frost shared that his long-term partner Sulina had an unusual response. "I've not watched it, but my daughter has watched it three times and even my wife has watched it," the garden designer said. Moran remarked: "And your wife praised you, which is rare apparently." Frost agreed: "Very rare. Last night we got in bed and she said, 'I'm proud of you'."
When O'Leary noted that was a wonderful thing to hear, Frost joked that compliments are sparse in their 26-year relationship. "25 or 26 years together mate, that's probably the third time," he said, laughing. "It was like, 'Woah, I feel slightly uncomfortable now', what have I done? But yeah, no [it's] magical."
Family and Recent Move
Frost met Sulina in the 1990s while she was working as a manager at John Lewis. They share four children: Abi-Jade, Jacob, Amber-Lily, and Oakley. The couple recently moved house, trading their Grade II-listed 18th-century farmhouse and its two-and-a-half-acre garden for a different farmhouse in October 2025. Frost reflected on the emotional move in an interview with Gardeners' World magazine last month: "If you're leaving your house and you've gotta leave the garden that you've loved for a long period of time... if you're like me, I wouldn't worry about it at all, I've done exactly that. We left in October, what have I taken with me? Probably a few little bits I dug and divided, contained them. And then obviously I took all my pots with me. Outside of that, I haven't bothered."
He added: "And you know, the beautiful things is, I went back to see the couple that have bought the garden and I walked around with them and they are absolutely loving it. And I think that's a great thing to hold on to, is the fact that maybe you've just left somebody else a whole load of joy." The location of Frost's new home is not known.
Health Struggles and Downsizing
Frost, who joined Gardeners' World in 2016, previously revealed that the family downsized to their old Lincolnshire house because he was suffering from burnout and depression. "We moved to our current home in Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 2022 because I needed to simplify my life. I had been working like a lunatic," he told The Times last year. "When I fell ill with Covid in 2021 and was forced to stop and isolate, everything came crashing in. It was as if somebody had removed my footings. Emotionally, I was gone. Even my passion for gardening disappeared. When I looked out of the window at the vast garden I had created, all I could see were jobs. Ten days later, a psychiatrist diagnosed burnout and depression. Talking and medication helped, but I needed to rethink my life. It became obvious that to get back on track mentally, I needed to downsize to a property with a much smaller garden."
He added that the farmhouse and its sprawling grounds were "great when everybody was well." However, they opted to downsize due to a series of health issues affecting him and Sulina, who battled sepsis. Frost lives with fibromyalgia, a chronic pain disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and cognitive difficulties. It affects around 2.5 million people in the UK. Speaking on Morning Live, he revealed: "For most of my life, I've considered myself pretty fit and healthy, regularly playing sports and, of course, spending lots of time in the garden. But around 20 years ago, I started to experience some unusual symptoms. I started to experience these very odd pains. They started in my neck, back, and shoulders, like this throbbing, and that then just moved through the rest of my body. In addition to this, I was struggling to sleep and would feel drained. I would go to work, return home feeling utterly exhausted. For nearly two years, I was shuffled between doctors, none of whom could pinpoint the root of my illness."
