The Top 2025 Gardening Trends For Backyard Gardeners, According To Experts
While trends come and go, I always find it fun to see what’s getting talked about. And, unlike fashion trends, one of the amazing things about following gardening trends is that they aren’t hurting our planet. In fact, continuing to evolve and adapt your garden with seasonal trends can actually help your garden. You can see the benefit with soil health, pollinator diversity and more. So sit back, relax and get inspired to include some of the hottest gardening trends of 2025 into your garden this season.
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Who Are The Experts That Report On Gardening Trends
First, let’s discuss who decides what trends are “hot” in gardening….which honestly is a funny sentence to be typing altogether!
However, there’s actually quite a few decision makers that influence gardening trends.
Starting with the most obvious trendsetter when it comes to having clout — social media.
Gardening influencers have a ton of control over what plants gain popularity each year.
Already, I have seen content on Instagram and Tik Tok discussing these 2025 gardening trends:
- Cottage core
- Homesteading & including animals into your garden plans
- Kitchen gardening, specifically cut and come again salad and herb beds
- At-home mushroom growing
For the record, none of the above mentioned trends made it on this top gardening trends of 2025 list!
But social media influencers aren’t the only ones influencing the gardening world.
The other experts that influence gardening trends include:
- The Royal Horticultural Society, which puts out their gardening trend predictions each year linked here
- High level gardening publications, like Martha Stewart Living
- The Official Pantone Colour Of The Year, which influences how many garden centres shop for their product
- Consumer reports
- Global trends in fashion and home decor
The 6 Hottest Gardening Trends Of 2025
Alright, let’s get into the top 6 gardening trends to look out for in 2025.
This list is compiled from trending topics across social platforms as well as data provided from the Garden Media Group, 2025 Garden Trends Report.
Download the entire trends report here for free.
1. Front Yard Veggie Gardens
Rethinking the location of your veggie garden will be big this year.
You’re likely to see neighbours transforming sections of their front yard with raised beds, vining archways and rows of veggies.
Backyard gardeners will look to urban market gardeners for inspiration. Think Curtis Stone.
While lush, green lawns were once seen as a sign of prestige, many are now seeing them as a useless monoculture. Not to mention one that requires a lot of work.
So consider adding a few new beds to your front yard this season!
And transform unused lawn into a space for food production.
One things for sure; you’ll have one of the most visually interesting yards in your neighbourhood. And the bees will love you for it.
2. Naturalized Gardens
Naturalized gardens (also known as “chaos gardening”) have been gaining popularity over the last few years.
The trend emerged in 2020 when gardeners starting choosing perennial flowers, grasses and shrubs over annuals.
The idea behind a naturalized garden is that it mimics the natural environment around you.
Clean lines don’t exist in a naturalized garden. Instead plants flow together, creating a mosaic of colours and textures.
This is a fantastic trend to embrace for self-proclaimed “lazy gardeners” like myself. Weeding is no worry in a naturalized garden space.
Wanting to create your own naturalized garden this season?
Try mixing native plants from your region with naturally-reseeding flowers.
Within a few seasons, you’ll have a naturalized garden that blends together as one.
3. Perennial Food Gardens
Gardeners are excited to lighten their work load in 2025 with perennial food gardens.
Many are swapping out annuals for fruiting trees and shrubs and vegetables. These are plants you can plant once and enjoy for years to come.
Forget the one short season you get with annuals. And instead embrace perennial foods like;
- Strawberries
- Apple, pear, cherry trees
- Raspberry & blueberry bushes
- Rhubarb plants
- Horseradish
- And more
There’s an abundance of fantastic edible perennials that thrive in all grow zones.
So be sure to add a few to your list for the 2025 season. Who knows what you’ll find yourself doing with all the extra time?
4. Architectural Gardens
Mixed metals, tall archways, staggered beds and sharp edges are in for 2025.
Complimenting your home to your garden space will be big this year. Experts predict more gardeners will embrace their unique gardening personalities, mixing in their taste in home decor and architecture.
An architectural garden can add height and dimension to your existing garden space.
Try this trend by installing a new trellis over a pathway. Or adding a metal raised bed between existing wood beds.
5. Fairy Gardens
Whimsy and play are trending for 2025 with more gardeners creating fairy gardens within their space.
Fairy gardens are miniature replicas of homes and gardens meant for imaginary fairies to use.
This is an easy gardening trend to follow in 2025. It can be as simple as adding a fairy door to the side of a raised bed.
Or get more creative with it!
Try collecting moss, rocks and twigs to create a mini replica of your own garden space only in “fairy size.”
This is a trend that gardeners with kids will be fast to embrace! Not only will it get your kids in the garden with you, it will have them excited to be out there.
6. Goth Gardens
Goth gardening blew up on social media in 2024. Accounts like @theg0thgarden had a huge reach, sharing dark purple and even pure black plants.
We even interviewed Chloe Hurst from @theg0thgarden on The Grow Guide Podcast, covering all things dark and spooky in the garden.
You can access the full interview here on our Patreon. Or listen to the minisode with a snippet of our conversation here on Apple, Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts.
While this trend may be out of your comfort zone, it doesn’t require fully committing your entire garden to it.
Try incorporating a few dark plants into one bed.
Even easier, add in the odd gargoyle statue between plants.
Goth gardening can take on any form you want it to.
And there you have it! Those are the 6 hottest gardening trends of 2025.
Curious to hear your thoughts! And any other trends you’re inspired to try this upcoming season.
Please do leave a comment below with some 2025 trends you’ve heard buzz about.
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Happy garden dreaming, planning and trending.