Adam has spent most of his life being interested in the relationship between people and place. An early influence was the study of the aesthetics of landscape at St. Andrews University as part of a joint MA Hons in Geography and Psychology. Gardening has long been a personal expression of this interest. He cut his teeth making a garden of passion and exuberance, in the Herefordshire borders. Now living on top of Exmoor he is seven years into a brand new garden and is starting another water garden in the Lot valley in France.