For the Love of Plants and Gardens: Adam Frost and Poppy Okotcha

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This event took place on 10 July 2025

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For the Love of Plants and Gardens: Adam Frost and Poppy Okotcha
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This event took place on 10 July 2025

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.

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.

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Speakers

Poppy Okotcha

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 The Great Garden Revolution.

Headshot of Poppy Okotcha

Adam Frost

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 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.

He is passionate about the relationship between gardening and mental health.

Headshot of Adam Frost