Mendip Living Aug - Sep 2021
The August/September issue is here, bringing together the best of high summer and early autumn. We are shining shoes in preparation for a new school year and feasting on delights for afternoon tea week. We’ve also got two fantastic interviews with chef Mitch Tonks and gardener Adam Frost. Don’t miss our competition page either - with over £1400 of goodies to be won!
The August/September issue is here, bringing together the best of high summer and early autumn. We are shining shoes in preparation for a new school year and feasting on delights for afternoon tea week. We’ve also got two fantastic interviews with chef Mitch Tonks and gardener Adam Frost. Don’t miss our competition page either - with over £1400 of goodies to be won!
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IT’S A<br />
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING<br />
DEVELOPMENT IN<br />
GLOUCESTERSHIRE REACHES<br />
KEY MILESTONE<br />
GARDENERS’<br />
WORLD<br />
Adam Frost is an<br />
award-winning British<br />
garden designer,<br />
television presenter and<br />
motivational speaker.<br />
Best known for his<br />
successes at RHS Chelsea<br />
Flower Show, he is<br />
passionate about inspiring<br />
adults and children<br />
alike to create their<br />
own gardens and watch<br />
hedgerows spring to life.<br />
Sally Thomson caught up<br />
with him to discuss all<br />
things green...<br />
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT GEOFF<br />
BARNWELL?<br />
It was originally in North Devon Parks<br />
depart that I did my apprenticeship and<br />
then I went to work for Geoff when I was<br />
21 years old and then spent an amazing<br />
mind blowing, not that I think you realise<br />
it in your early 20s working 6-7 years with<br />
Geoff until he passed away in 96.<br />
AN INSPIRATIONAL MAN I SHOULD<br />
IMAGINE?<br />
Yes, looking back I don’t think you<br />
realised what he was talking about, Peat<br />
free gardening, Organic gardening, stop<br />
ripping up limestone pavements and<br />
destroying the countryside all the things<br />
that were way before their time really. We<br />
are now 30 years on and we’ve only just<br />
decided to ban peat. I think in reality he<br />
set my gardening moral compass.<br />
HIS SON HAS GONE INTO THE SAME<br />
LINE OF WORK ALSO?<br />
He had 3 sons but Nick the middle son<br />
was left the garden & nursery, so he’s got<br />
Barnwell plants and gardens.<br />
TELL ME HOW THE GARDENER’S<br />
WORLD EVENT WENT AT BEAULIEU?<br />
I had a lovely weekend! I’d be lying if I<br />
didn’t say I was a bit nervous. I had just<br />
had my 2nd injection It was the first time<br />
I had done anything in a public arena for<br />
about 18 months! You realise that all the<br />
shows are now your general catch up.<br />
WITH THE PANDEMIC DID YOU FIND<br />
IT STRANGE NOT BEING OUT &<br />
ABOUT WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC?<br />
Definitely, We run a school as well so<br />
we had to close that. I did some stuff on<br />
zoom like most people but that’s a very<br />
strange experience. I’ve never spent<br />
so much time at home or in the garden<br />
through the summer months with my wife<br />
& kids which was a mixed blessing and<br />
gave me time to stop which I don’t think<br />
I’ve done since I was 16.<br />
I BET YOU MISSED THE VIBE OF<br />
BEING AT CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW?<br />
I was due to go back and do a garden<br />
in 2020 so that went but it looks we will<br />
be able to go back in <strong>Sep</strong>tember and<br />
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