In the midst of the holiday craziness thoughts start to extend to the new year ahead. Just around the corner, it makes us start thinking about new plans and goals. What will our garden trends for 2025 look like? What should we be planning for now?
Flowers for Cutting
There are so many beautiful flower arrangements and florists taking over Instagram lately, that it makes sense for people to start growing their own. Having fresh flowers in a home is certainly a luxury, but growing these yourself makes it a creative, economical hobby.
Even this simple bouquet featuring cosmos and love in a mist (Nigella) creates a classic arrangement. These two flowers are just a single example of very easy to grow flowers for creating floral arrangements. Expect to see flowers that are easy to grow from seed or bulbs rather than fussy, high maintenance plants.
The biggest and best zinnias, cosmos, gladiolas, verbena and others will make excellent cutting gardens and provide more flowers than a homeowner can cut.
Annual Foliage Plants Take Center Stage
While the cutting garden features flowers, I expect to see containers move toward very colorful foliage as the focal point. The thriller-filler-spiller recipe may still be used, but I think we will see many more foliage plants in this mix than previously. Gardeners are looking for big impact that lasts the full season, and most of these foliage plants will fit that requirement perfectly.
Purple oxalis shows the quality of foliage plants perfectly. It has bold, dramatic color all season long, it is easy to grow, and it is easy to tuck in with other plants. Caladiums also fit in this category, as do coleus. Purple oxalis has become one of my favorite plants and I find myself using it liberally in almost all of my containers. It doesn’t take too much space but ties together uncommon colors and plants well.
Coleus (here ‘Flame Thrower’) and some others can need more space, but new smaller cultivars create excellent opportunities. The pink leaves of Iresine in this photo show another option.
Solar Lighting
This may be an optimistic garden trend for 2025, but I hope to see solar lighting for gardens make an impact. Not cheap, dim lights, but really high quality, long lasting solar lights. I can’t be the only person to be disappointed after trying these in the past, but I think quality solar lights will gain traction and popularity if they can prove they will hold up and work well.
What other garden trends for 2025 do you see? What would you like to see and keep your fingers crossed that it will catch on? I am hoping for a return to big, full lush perennial garden borders. What can I say? I’m a little old school like that!
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