10 Popular Trends in Landscape Designs

How to create a garden that will always be on trend? Style is transient and changeable, and gardens are not created for one year.

The landscaping of the garden is not a quick matter, so fashion here changes more slowly than in other areas of life. But landscape designers still highlight the trends that are relevant for 2025. They are approximately the same around the world: a modern garden is a place for happiness. Therefore, homeowners should not tire themselves with the creation of a summer cottage landscape design, and therefore the garden trends of 2025 should include fruit trees and even flower beds (the realization that you grow crops yourself should enhance the feeling of happiness). We will talk about the new trends in more detail.

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Trend No. 1. Malnutrition

The more disorder there is in the garden, the less joy comes from it. A well-kept garden is boring and annoying. On the other hand, we are all busy with work, family, study, hobbies, travel… Therefore, an important trend in landscape design is to simplify the garden.

For this, gardeners:

• Grow perennials and group them according to how much watering they need.
• Position the plants so that they do not create unnecessary work. For example, there should be no trees shedding leaves in a pond or pool, or no strong-growing shrubs blocking a garden path and therefore requiring frequent pruning.
• Use automatic irrigation. In general, modern gardening trends tell us to automate everything we can.
• choose easy-care, durable materials, make live borders for pallets so they are swept away less, etc.

Trend No. 2. Impressive relaxation area

Designers formulate this trend as follows: “Why go on vacation once a year if you can create a yard where you will feel like on vacation all year round!” It is necessary to create a recreation area where you will feel no worse than in any seaside hotel. And yes, you should choose unpretentious plants for it – self-harming in gardening is not a trend.

Western designers suggest increasing the comfort of the recreation area with the following solutions:

• Place a speaker system in the recreation area (should be suitably protected from the weather) to listen to your favorite music.
• Buy or make really good garden furniture with your own hands. This will take your suburban life to a new level.
• Make good lighting. There are many materials and ideas on FORUMHOUSE on this subject. No one regretted spending this money.
• If you don't have a regular barbecue area, an outdoor stove, or a good barbecue, it's time to build them. Moments in life, like dinner outdoors, are expensive.

Trend No. 3. Make the ordinary beautiful

Any garden is full of objects that cannot be classified as MAF; rather, they are small outbuildings. Awnings, compost bins, under which something is hidden… The trend is to no longer dazzle the eyes with the inappropriateness of these objects. But they are not hidden, on the contrary, focus on them, only now these things must be beautiful.

What's featured here: Use old, vintage items to help write your story for the garden.

Suggestion: Animal shaped pot models for garden landscape designs

Repurpose old buildings. We’ve previously told you how a FORUMHOUSE contributor turned a greenhouse into a winter garden, and the result was impressive.

You can try to force the design of a favorite attraction and use it to decorate your object. It will be ordinary and interesting.

Trend No. 4. Places closed from prying eyes

This trend is also associated with the crazy rhythm of modern life. You need a place where you can hide from all the problems and worries and relax. Maybe it will be a platform for yoga and meditation, or just a hammock or an outdoor jacuzzi in the corner of the garden. Indoor spaces are no less important than beautiful and great expectations, they are an important part of the modern philosophy of gardening.

Leading landscape artists and architects recommend:

• Include at least a small body of water in such a secluded area;
• To make sure that there is enough space for two in this place – sometimes you want to retire with someone very close and nice;
• Decorate the area with plants with lush green crowns;
• Such a place can be placed behind the wall of a building to ensure maximum privacy;
• You can specifically protect such an area with a pergola or a living wall of tall plants;
• The color scheme for the design of this place should be as neutral and calm as possible.

Trend No. 5. Increase the joy of getting to know the garden

The garden should delight the homeowner from the first minutes he enters his territory. The magnificent entrance to the garden is a major trend for the upcoming season. There are simple ways to achieve this effect:

• Place tall containers with pretty plants by the door;
• Plant scented plants along the path from the door to the house;
• Make sure you make interesting coverage;
• The entrance group of the house is decorated with plants whose colors combine well with the color of the doors.
• If the path rises step by step from the door to the house, it also needs to be beaten – to grow moss or plant creeping plants in the crevices.

Trend No. 6. Unique decor

Recently, landscape designers, when creating a garden, use materials and plants for decoration that no one would have thought of. Not garden gnomes, but some dry branches, dry seed heads, cereals, thorns – all that.

In the photo – the work of famous Dutch designer Pete Udolph – the landscapes are as natural as possible.

Such things give the garden a uniqueness and take it farther away from the vulgarity of garden figures from the shops. It is very important to think creatively and see the beauty in strange, unexpected things.

Trend No. 7. Grow food

Integrating a garden into the garden is not a new trend, but in recent years it has become very relevant. People who used to be limited to lawns and ornamental trees are starting to plant tomato seedlings in flowerbeds, decorative saplings or fruit trees. More and more people are starting to think about what they eat and are trying to opt for natural, environmentally friendly products.

The trend is to grow fruit even in the most limited space.

Trend No. 8. Make your garden good for the whole planet.

On the one hand, this is the most difficult and complicated component of the modern philosophy of gardening, but on the other hand, many Russian gardeners do it. The garden should not only benefit the gardener, but the very fact of its existence should heal our planet.

Hence the appeal of organic gardening, improving soil structure, rejecting pesticides, and planting plants that attract butterflies and bees.

In recent years, it has become increasingly common to share surplus fruit with those in need, with modern society. And another part of this trend is the design of the garden as part of the wildlife. This is not suitable for everyone, but sometimes it seems incredible.

Trend No. 9. Houseplants

Indoor plants – we know how it is, we love it, we have been doing it for years, but now they are reaching a new level. Modern gardening philosophy does not support a utilitarian approach to growing indoor plants, it should be a creative process to create truly impressive green corners in the house. All plants should be simply wonderful.

Trend No. 10. There should be good furniture in the garden

Meaningless, cheap garden furniture is a thing of the past. Gardeners all over the world are gradually switching to very high-quality tables and chairs, probably made by themselves, resistant to atmospheric influences. It is believed that garden furniture should be of high quality, with a long service life. Ideally, make it yourself and pass it on to the children. Of course, it should be as comfortable as possible and very beautiful.

New Modern Landscape Design Trends

Results

Other important trends of the new season are from the series “garden for happiness, not for work”. These are as follows:

• less grass, more ground cover plants and grains;
• softer zoning, less rigid lines, blurrier boundaries;
• The garden is a continuation of the house, overlooking the kitchen, dining room and even the living room;
• rain gardens and a bioplate have become fashionable. (The topic of bioplate has been discussed for a long time and in detail on Forumhouse). And rain gardens are arranged in such a way that the water does not go into the storm drain, but remains on the site, going through the drain pipe directly to the flower bed;
• shrubs are beginning to gain great importance, creating groups and even large arrays from them, replacing elements that are difficult to create and difficult to maintain: lawn, compound mixborders, molded hedges. Trees and shrubs with topiary haircuts are definitely not in trend.
• Umbrella plants are becoming extremely popular. They create an air haze for the garden, softening its shape;
• pastel muted colors continue to be in trend, but after last year's exhibition of floral and landscape design in Chelsea, a new direction emerged – mixing bright, contrasting colors in one composition and diluting them with plants;
• Rockeries and alpine hills are going out of fashion, but they are still very suitable for gardens with a pronounced slope.

In general, the trend of the past years continues – the garden is increasingly wild, the beautiful is considered natural, which is favored by the lack of care and simplicity. However, it cannot be said that a modern garden is in no way cheaper for homeowners. We have to invest in the mechanization and automation of labor, expensive furniture, lighting. But gardening is one of the most exciting hobbies a person can have, and it pays off.