What happened to Adam Frost Wife? Illness and Health Update 2026.

If you’ve followed Adam Frost for any length of time, you already know the version the camera gives you: calm voice, grounded wisdom, and that reassuring ability to make even hard gardening jobs feel doable. But behind the Gardeners’ World calm, there has been a much more personal chapter involving his wife Sulina’s health, a family under pressure, and a long road back to normal life.

Adam’s own path to becoming one of Britain’s most recognizable TV gardeners has always been tied to resilience. He has spoken about leaving home young, working in parks, learning under Geoff Hamilton, and eventually building a career that includes seven RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medals and a central role on BBC Gardeners’ World. That success story matters here, because in recent interviews, he has connected his professional life directly to what his family went through during the pandemic years.

The love story behind the public life

Adam and Sulina have kept most private details exactly that—private. But multiple profiles over the years have consistently said they met in the 1990s, with Sulina reportedly working at John Lewis at the time. Some reports also say they married not long afterward, though I want to be clear that a precise public wedding date is not consistently documented in sources that are freely available.

What is visible, though, is the tone of their relationship in Adam’s own words. In a 2025 interview, he described shared routines in their newer, smaller home and even connected one garden area to a song that reminds him of when they first got together. It’s one of those small details that says more than a dramatic headline ever could: they built a life around everyday moments, and that emotional center seems to have mattered even more once health challenges entered the picture.

Their children

The couple share four children, and Adam has repeatedly referenced the realities of parenting through family illness and work pressure. Public reporting names the children as Jacob, Oakley, Abi-Jade, and Amber-Lily, although the family generally keeps a low profile when it comes to personal details.

On grandchildren, there is no strong, verifiable public confirmation in the mainstream interviews and profiles I reviewed. Coverage consistently centers on the couple and their four children, rather than the next generation. So the accurate answer right now is: no confirmed public update on grandchildren.

Sulina’s illness and hospitalization

This is the part that changed everything.

Adam has said Sulina was seriously unwell during the pandemic period, and in one interview he described her being in hospital for around 11 to 12 weeks. He also connected that period with an extremely difficult family load: children at home, another child unwell, and him trying to keep work moving while the household was in crisis mode.

Several outlets have additionally reported that Sulina developed sepsis during that hospitalization. While details of diagnosis and treatment were not laid out in depth by the family publicly, the repeated reporting around sepsis aligns with Adam’s own broader comments about how severe and disruptive that period was.

The impact rippled beyond her illness alone. Adam has been candid that around the same time he reached burnout and depression, eventually seeing a psychiatrist after what he described as the wheels coming off during lockdown-related stress, illness in the family, and isolation. In other words, this wasn’t one health scare in a vacuum; it was a stacked crisis period for the whole household.