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Thursday 2nd October 2025 at Arena MK, Milton Keynes.
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Seminar Programme
Every visitor to the show has the opportunity to enjoy some fantastic sessions featuring expert speakers in the Seminar Theatre. Not only could you listen to some interesting ideas and advice, but you could also ask your own questions too. To stay up to date with show news and information click the link below.
Gardener, Adam Frost announced as first 2025 GLT Show speaker

Picture credit: Sarah Cuttle.
Organisers of the 2025 Group Leisure & Travel Show have confirmed that Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost will take to the Seminar Theatre stage at the exhibition on Thursday 2nd October at Arena MK in Milton Keynes.
The television presenter will have some great suggestions on gardens for groups to visit and is a first-time speaker in the Seminar Theatre at the Milton Keynes based event.
He also regularly presents the BBC’s coverage of multiple RHS Flower Shows and has featured on The One Show and DIY SOS, plus The Alan Titchmarsh Show.
The Seminar Theatre is always a popular feature where celebrities and experts share stories and trips, as well as their own tips to inspire visitors.
Seminar sessions and appearances subject to change.
More about Adam Frost
In 2016 Adam won ‘Best New Talent’ at the RTS West Awards. Since 2007, he has amassed seven gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. He regularly lectures on a wide range of horticultural topics, both nationally and internationally and is a regular contributor to Gardeners’ World and other horticultural magazines.
Adam’s first book Real Gardens was published in 2015, followed three years later by How to Create your Garden. In March 2022 he published The Creative Gardener, an incredibly personal book of garden projects created during lockdown. Autumn 2022 saw his first Gardener’s World tie-in book published titled How I Garden.
Adam is trained in horticulture and landscape design and began his professional career in the mid-1980s with an apprenticeship at the North Devon Parks Department. He later moved to Rutland where he began working with Geoff Hamilton at Barnsdale Gardens. He helped design and create many of the 38 small gardens which are still on show to the public today.
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 where he hosted masterclasses on design and other gardening courses.
Look out for other announcements about celebrity speakers to be confirmed soon.
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Past speakers include…

Gyles Brandreth
Television Personality and ‘Culture Vulture’

Simon Calder
Travel Editor, The Independent

Nicholas Owen
Newscaster and Television Presenter

Jilly Goolden
Wine critic, TV presenter and journalist

Matt Allwright
TV Presenter

Frances Tophill
Garden expert and TV presenter

Kate Humble
Writer & Broadcaster

Simon Reeve
Adventurer, TV presenter and Author

Joe Swift
TV Gardener & Presenter

Dan Cruickshank
TV Historian and Presenter

Chris Beardshaw
TV Presenter and Celebrity Gardener

Jennie Bond
Royal commentator and broadcaster

Jane Archer
UK’s Leading Cruise Expert

Alexis Conran
Fraud specialist and star of The Real Hustle

Julie Peasgood
Television presenter, journalist and actress

Carol Klein
Gardener and Television Presenter

Martin Roberts
Travel expert and TV presenter

Eric Knowles
Antiques and history expert, and TV broadcaster




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