New Garden Trend 10 Tips

The new year has begun and that means: the next gardening season is in the starting blocks. We show you what you can't miss in your garden.

The shape and color are more similar to a flower, but ornamental cabbage

For many hobby gardeners and garden lovers, winter is a difficult time – many gardening activities unfortunately have to be cancelled due to weather conditions.

But now that the new year has begun, many are already making plans for the upcoming gardening season: what to plant in the vegetable patch this year, which ornamental plants should brighten up the flowerbed and what else is there to keep up to date with the latest news from the gardening world , as well as on their own property? We have summarized the top garden trends of 2025 for you below so that you are up to date.

1. Raised beds

Raised beds have been on the rise in many German gardens for several years now. This year, raised beds are really something that is missing in any garden. They are not only practical, but also a real eye-catcher visually.

Here's how to build a raised bed yourself quite easily. What many don't know: Certain, narrow raised beds can also be an excellent solution for growing vegetables and herbs on a balcony or terrace. How best to plant beds and what to consider, you can read in this article. Raised bed live high!

Raised beds are becoming increasingly popular and extremely practical

2. Unusual herbs

You can also enhance your DIY raised bed with a few unusual plants. How about curry herb, for example? As its name suggests, this herb smells and tastes like curry. However, it is not part of the classic Indian curry spice mix. Other exotic plants in our latitudes that could enhance your garden in 2025 are mushroom herb, shiso (perilla), and hyssop.

Ysop attracts many butterflies with its filigree flowers

3. Bee-friendly plants

Another trend that will hopefully continue for a long time is bee-friendly plants. These will turn your garden into a real paradise for bees, which are often threatened in their habitat. But not only small animals will enjoy the variety of flowers. Very suitable plants are, for example, thyme or phacelia. Here you can find a list of the 10 most bee-friendly plants.

Let's do something together with bee-friendly plants

4. Red fleshed fruit

Healthy eating is on the rise. Cranberries have been popular for some time due to their antioxidant properties. Antioxidants bind free radicals in the body and are therefore essential for a healthy diet. However, the red-fleshed fruit is particularly rich in antioxidants.

These traits can be found at specialty rare nurseries, such as the plant-specific variety. So why not plant a red-fleshed vineyard peach, a red-fleshed apple, or a red-fleshed pear in your own garden next spring?

Cranberries are delicious and healthy

5. Ornamental cabbage

Do you want to turn your own vegetable patch into a real colourful spectacle? This is possible, for example, by growing various ornamental cabbages. These light up in a variety of colours: from dark violet, bright pink to bright orange – the variety is truly impressive.

Ornamental cabbage with a deep dark purple color

6. Vertical garden

Especially in big cities, there is a lack of plants that not only visually enhance the cityscape but also provide cleaner air. The vertical gardening trend (the word expressed in English) was born from this observation: to bring more green to cities.

However, horizontal surfaces are not planted, for example house facades are equipped with plants that do not have problems with this vertical positioning. Vertical gardens can be arranged relatively easily on your own balcony or on the wall of your house.

Whether it is flowers or herbs, you can grow them in abundance in cloth bags.

7. Aquaponics

Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics and refers to the simultaneous cultivation of crops together with the cultivation of fish in specific ponds. This symbiosis is already successfully implemented in several German cities and also in the hobby fishing community, which discusses various aquaponics variants on the web. A detailed article on the subject can be found here .

The nutrient-rich water from ponds is an ideal fertilizer.

8. Natural pest control with beneficial substances

Chemistry club was yesterday. In the home garden, the knowledgeable gardener increasingly resorts to biological insecticides and even other types of natural pest control. For example, the larvae of the cute ladybug eat tons of the much-hated aphids. Some nematodes destroy the larvae of the dreaded aphid. Let the war of the insects begin!

Seven-spot ladybug larva eating lice.

9. Morbid roses

If you want to deviate from the usual standard in terms of roses and want a variety of colors and nuances in your flowerbed, you should definitely plant sickly roses in 2025. Variations in color and shape will truly enchant any garden and will probably surprise many observers. You can find a list of the most beautiful varieties here.

Hybrid Tea Rose Neptune

10. Hedgehog-friendly garden

The garden is not just a retreat for us humans. Many animals are also dependent on buildings that are often too narrow to share these last green spaces. Every year many hedgehogs die because they have to cross many paths to finally find a garden they can access. We have summarized how to make your garden friendly in a video with LBV.

Hedgehogs are nocturnal and cross-gardening in search of food.