DK snaps up Adam Frost’s book on the joy of plants

DK Living has acquired Adam Frost’s new book For The Love of Plants: Celebrate the Joy of Plants Every Day, scheduled for publication in Spring 2025.

Editorial manager Ruth O’Rourke acquired world rights from Theia Nankivell at KBJ Management. The publisher says the new book from the award-winning gardener, RHS ambassador and TV presenter “invites readers to tour his new garden through his own words, memories and experiences”.

The book – also a nod to Frost’s personal story and how plants and time in his garden has helped him navigate the difficult moments he has encountered in his life – is broken into sections corresponding to areas of the garden.

Frost starts with a kitchen garden at the front of the house, and readers are then guided through the shady tree fern filled passage to the north-facing border at the back of the house, moving on to the sunny main terrace and lawns, the dry gravel garden, and finally the woodland planting at the rear. He shares what he hoped to achieve with each section – both practically but also personally as he draws on the memories each one evokes and how the spaces make him feel.

The publisher says: “Adam’s journey is one that many of us can relate to, how the things we love can pull us through our hardest times, as well as being at the centre of our happiest ones.”

Frost said: “That love for plants seems to have supported me throughout my life and I really wanted to try to share and celebrate that connection in the book. A few years back I hit a bit of a rough patch and a huge part of getting life back on track has been creating my new garden. For The Love Of Plants is that journey, through creating the garden and back to being me again. It really is a pleasure to work with the DK team again to share this story.”

O’Rourke added: "We’re thrilled to be working with Adam on his third book with DK. For the Love of Plants explores Adam’s vast knowledge and appreciation of the plants he loves to grow. He profiles more than 200 of them in the book, sharing how he uses them, how to care for them, and the significance they hold.

"This book is a unique account of the joy plants can bring to us all, wonderfully observed through Adam’s brilliant eye for planting."