With the new year just around the corner, it’s time for us to take a sneak peek into the forecasted garden design trends for 2025.
A new year brings great opportunity and is therefore a fabulous time to begin thinking about re-designing, developing and enhancing your landscape.
With many more of us becoming much more environmentally aware, sustainability techniques are set to be in even higher demand in 2025 as we strive for healthier and more sustainable lifestyles. A prime topic at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025, we have also had a sneak preview into Monty Don’s dog-friendly garden and will be exploring how dog-friendly designs are set to be trending in the new year. From striking sustainable garden features to idyllic wellness gardens, come with us as we give you an exclusive preview into the predicted garden design trends for 2025, uncovering how you can include some of these techniques within your own garden too!
Sustainable spaces
With our need for sustainable practices more important than ever, we’ve seen a huge increase in the demand for sustainable materials, techniques and features. With sustainability at the heart of The Oxfordshire Gardener, we’ve loved seeing this growth throughout 2024 and it’s been wonderful to see so many people making proactive changes to lead a more sustainable and environmentally friendly lifestyle.
Reducing your carbon footprint and providing you with an abundance of nutrient-rich produce, kitchen gardens are a great way to refresh and improve your lifestyle. Considerably reducing your need for supermarket grown produce and supporting your local ecosystem, kitchen gardens can bring so many rewards to both your family and your garden’s natural environment. Therefore, in 2025 we can expect to see more people including flourishing growing spaces into there landscape designs, such as kitchen and cutting gardens.
Materials and home composting
Significantly reducing household waste, supporting biodiversity and more, home composting is another way to be more sustainable in your everyday lifestyle. With more of us set to be composting in 2025, we can expect home composting bays to be a popular landscaping feature in the new year.
If you’re thinking about re-designing your garden in the new year then there are a number of ways that you can make your project more sustainable. Environmentally conscious landscaping methods such as the use of reclaimed materials, permeable natural stone pavers and installing drip irrigation systems are just a few example features that our team use to construct striking yet sustainable landscape designs.
Dog-friendly gardens
For the first time ever, it has recently been revealed that Monty Don will be designing a beautiful dog-friendly garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025. So, it will probably come as no surprise that dog-friendly gardens and designs are therefore going to be an extremely popular topic within the new year (and we can’t wait!).
With Britain’s deep-rooted affection for both dogs and gardens, Monty has designed this garden as a heartfelt tribute to our love for gardening and our four-legged friends. Focusing in on dog-friendly plants, natural fencing techniques and features that will ensure to get their tails wagging, using a few simple yet effective methods, a landscape designer can easily construct a garden that enhances your home and lifestyle but is also dog-friendly all at the same time!
Wellness gardens
In recent years, we’ve seen well-being and wellness gardens soaring in popularity (and quite rightly so!). Blank canvases full of opportunity, more of us are transforming our gardens into exclusive and secluded wellness retreats designed for both exercise and relaxation. Easily accessible and acting as an extension of our homes, wellness gardens are a wonderful way to develop your landscape.
Outdoor garden spas are a fabulous way to embed a luxurious wellness retreat into your landscape. Settled over an expansive wooden decking area, garden saunas, showers and hot tubs are a blissful way to relax and unwind.
If you’re looking for private place to workout and connect with nature, then an outdoor movement studio or garden gym could be a great addition to your wellness garden design. Seamlessly settled into your garden’s natural landscape, these features allow you to tune in to the idyllic sounds and sights of nature and are also fantastic for boosting both your mental and physical health.
Read more about wellness gardens here.
Looking to re-invent your garden in the new year? Discover how our masterly garden design team and in-house landscapers could transform your landscape in 2025.
