Adam started gardening in his father's garden when he was 5. He went on to study Horticulture at Reading University, and was awarded a fellowship to set up the Camden Garden Centre with Richard Jackson.
After Camden, Adam and Richard set up the Garden Centre at Alexandra Palace, specialising in plants suitable for the small garden. Adam went on to run The Bypass Nursery Group of garden centres, which included The Chelsea Gardener. He now owns a nursery in East Anglia and organises mail order offers for national magazines.
Adam co-presented a series of The Home Show for Thames Television and was a regular contributor on Ned Sherrin's Start the Week for Radio 4. He also hosted gardening phone-ins for LBC and local radio and has written a weekly gardening column for the Jewish Chronicle.
His first book Urban Eden, was published in February 2000 by Kyle Cathie. Adam has written two further books of his own; Planted Junk and Kitchen Garden, both published by Ryland, Peters & Small. Adam’s latest book Cool Containers was published by Jacqui Small in the Autumn 2003. He has recently written articles for Gardens Illustrated and Garden Inspirations.
In 2004 Adam worked with 2 primary schools in Southwark creating an installation for the Covent Garden Flower Festival. A skip was filled with three huge trees on one side and a desert on the other. The kids used recycled containers, like old tomato cans and paint tins planted with plants, which were hung off the tree to symbolise the green future. The desert represented the possible future if we kept on destroying the environment. He organised an art show in which the kids did pictures of the ‘good’ future and the ‘bad’. Plants and trees featured in all of their hopes, while fire and desolation in their fears.
After this Adam initiated, and helped raise funds for a garden at Montem School, a primary school in Finsbury Park London, with the charity ‘Trees for Cities’. The structure of the garden is now complete and the children have helped to plant and design it, and will be using it for learning in.
Adam is also an artist, who has now had four successful one-man shows in London.
After Camden, Adam and Richard set up the Garden Centre at Alexandra Palace, specialising in plants suitable for the small garden. Adam went on to run The Bypass Nursery Group of garden centres, which included The Chelsea Gardener. He now owns a nursery in East Anglia and organises mail order offers for national magazines.
Adam co-presented a series of The Home Show for Thames Television and was a regular contributor on Ned Sherrin's Start the Week for Radio 4. He also hosted gardening phone-ins for LBC and local radio and has written a weekly gardening column for the Jewish Chronicle.
His first book Urban Eden, was published in February 2000 by Kyle Cathie. Adam has written two further books of his own; Planted Junk and Kitchen Garden, both published by Ryland, Peters & Small. Adam’s latest book Cool Containers was published by Jacqui Small in the Autumn 2003. He has recently written articles for Gardens Illustrated and Garden Inspirations.
In 2004 Adam worked with 2 primary schools in Southwark creating an installation for the Covent Garden Flower Festival. A skip was filled with three huge trees on one side and a desert on the other. The kids used recycled containers, like old tomato cans and paint tins planted with plants, which were hung off the tree to symbolise the green future. The desert represented the possible future if we kept on destroying the environment. He organised an art show in which the kids did pictures of the ‘good’ future and the ‘bad’. Plants and trees featured in all of their hopes, while fire and desolation in their fears.
After this Adam initiated, and helped raise funds for a garden at Montem School, a primary school in Finsbury Park London, with the charity ‘Trees for Cities’. The structure of the garden is now complete and the children have helped to plant and design it, and will be using it for learning in.
Adam is also an artist, who has now had four successful one-man shows in London.
Adam co-wrote the best selling gardening book Instant Gardening (Chatto & Windus) and has been a guest presenter on BBC Gardeners' World as well as appearing regularly on TV and radio. He also wrote a regular gardening column for The Times on Saturday Magazine.
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