In episode 354 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Adam The Sartorial Gardener.
Adam runs an Instagram account where, as the title suggests, he documents his life tending and working on his garden whilst looking very dapper and elegant at the same time.
Adam also posts on the account to cherish the memory of his wife Evanne, who tragically died of brain cancer on April 29th 2025.
Adam and Evanne met at university in Lancaster where he met her on the very first seminar he ever attended.
Evanne was originally diagnosed before Adam met her, on December 28th 2018.
They graduated together in 2022 but tragically, in November that year, her brain cancer returned and she was re-diagnosed with a grade 3 form of the tumour.
Adam and Evanne had originally planned to get married in July/August 2025. However, because of Evanne’s prognosis and decline, they moved it forward and after getting engaged in March 2023, got married in March 2025, just one month before she died.
During their time at university, there was a small garden at the end of the road of the flat where they both lived together. Adam started volunteering there and Evanne took pictures of the bees and flowers there as part of her degree.
From that point, Adam’s desire to do horticulture and gardening for a career was born.
In this episode, we first discuss Adam’s triple diagnosis of dyslexia, dyspraxia and dysgraphia and how that impacted his childhood and adolescence. We also discuss how the early diagnosis and having a hugely supportive state-school environment allowed him to thrive alongside these conditions, manage them and succeed by going to university.
We then discuss the love story of meeting Evanne, how they navigated the brain cancer treatment, the story of their marriage, and Evanne’s tragic decline from her second diagnosis.
We discuss the grief he has gone through in the last year since her death, his desire to keep her memory alive through the gardening account, and a hike he did in September 2025 alongside Adam and Evanne’s friends and family, which raised £3,300 for brain cancer research charities.
We came across Adam through his interview on friend of the pod JD’s ‘What’s On Your Mind?’ channel.
As always, #itsokaytovent
You can follow Adam on social media here.
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