2025 is here and we’re looking forward to another year of further enhancing and improving our gardens with beautifully fragrant and colourful planting schemes.
In anticipation of the warmer months and the busy planting season ahead, we’ve caught up with talented garden designer Angel Collins and the wonderful Head Gardener of Waterperry Gardens, Pat Havers, to uncover their top predictions for the most popular plants in 2025. Taking a look into the latest colour schemes, styles and forecasted trends, in this article we’ll be exploring the top plants that you need to keep an eye out for this year. From firm favourites to forecasted choices, join us as we explore a series of striking plants that you can easily add into your very own garden.
Delphiniums
We recently caught up with the wonderful and incredibly knowledgeable horticulturist, Pat Havers. As Head Gardener at Waterperry Gardens, Pat ensures that the gardens at Waterperry are always continuing to flourish an abundance of glorious textures and palettes throughout all seasons.
Pat told us that “At the beginning of the year is when I start to look at what is needed on the herbaceous border for the coming season. One of our main plants is the lovely delphinium also known as ‘Queen of the Border’. This year I have a new selection on order one of which is ‘Rebecca’ (which is also my daughters name) bred by Home Farm Plants at Bovingdon, which is where I go for all of my delphiniums. It is a medium height and is a lovely violet/purple with a white eye”.
Delphiniums are wonderful statement blooms that display beautifully bold hues throughout the garden. Producing gorgeous cut flowers, these blooms are incredibly valuable for dotting visual interest throughout both your home and your interiors too. Flowering all summer long, delphiniums are a must-have garden bloom for 2025.
If you’d like to see these beautiful delphiniums in all their glory then make sure to head on over to Waterperry Gardens this summer. Pat tells us “anyone visiting Waterperry in June/July will see these beautiful plants gracing the back of our magnificent border”.
Astrantia
We recently had the pleasure of catching up with incredibly talented and creative garden designer Angel Collins. Dressing her glorious garden designs with flourishing planting schemes, we were eager to catch up with Angel to uncover her favourite plants for a flourishing landscape.
“Favourite plant, now that’s tricky” she tells us.
“My favourite plant is one which flowers for 3 months and then looks good after that for a further two months”.
First on Angel’s list, we have Astrantia ‘superstar’. A charming herbaceous perennial, Astrantia ‘superstar’ blooms beautifully throughout the summer months, producing divine green and ivory tinted flowers.
Agapanthus
Next on Angel’s list was the captivating Agapanthus ”Navy Blue’. Shooting bright and upright blue blooms, Agapanthus ‘Navy Blue’ is a striking garden bloom that first flowers from July and is fabulous for attracting bees, butterflies and other valuable pollinators into the garden.
When we asked for Angels’ favourite bloom, she told us, “if I had to choose one, I would probably go for Agapanthus as you wait for the flowers in July and it flowers for all July and August and then you get the beautiful seed pods”. A superb sun-loving and summer-flowering bloom, we couldn’t agree with Angel more.
Hakonechloa macra
Better known as “Japanese forest grass”, Angel tells us that “one of the best plants I think is Hakenochloa macra, the low green grass”. A glorious perennial grass, Hakenochloa boasts a beautiful array of lime-green leaves which shift to brick-red shades during the autumn/winter months.
Sidalcea ‘Elsie Heugh’
When we asked Angel what her prediction for the top plant of 2025 would be she revealed “I think pale pink is going to make a comeback and Sidalcea ‘Elsie Heugh’ is a brilliant plant. It has elegant spires of pale silky pink with frilly edges and flowers in July and August”.
Boasting a charming display of silky pink flowers, Sidalcea ‘Elsie Heugh’ is a distinctive deciduous perennial that we can’t wait to see popping up throughout more planting schemes and garden designs in 2025.
Looking to enhance your garden with idyllic natural textures and hues? Speak to our specialist soft landscaping team today to discover how we dress our landscapes with beautifully bespoke planting schemes.
