A new year is here, and we are so excited about everything it holds in store for our gardens. The gardening trends we predict for 2025 represent a desire to reconnect with the outside world as a retreat from our busy daily lives and to do it in a way that really mirrors one’s personal aesthetic and values.
So, take some time during this quiet period of reflection to daydream about what your garden might be this year. Maybe it will become a place for you to start the day in calm introspection, maybe it’s a space where you can cocoon yourself in green, or maybe it’s a place for you to commune with the natural world. No matter how you choose to invest in your garden in 2025, Dennis’ 7 Dees plant experts, designers, and crews are here to support you every step of the way.
1. Creating a Wellness Garden
Wellness gardens are beautiful, intentional spaces where you can pause before the workday begins or stretch, meditate, and unwind when the day is done. Your wellness garden should act as a retreat from the hustle and bustle of every day life and invite you to relax.
Engage as many senses as possible when creating your wellness garden—use green walls to obstruct unsightly views and fill the space with flowers and plants that bring you joy, include a fountain to add the soothing sounds of water to your space, and choose plants with fragrant flowers or aromatic, edible leaves. Your wellness garden is a place where you can find a deeper sense of calm as you take in the simple beauty of the natural world.
2. Embracing Maximalism
Maximalism is a gardening trend that true plant lovers will be quick to embrace. After all, more is more when it comes to plants in the garden! When creating a maximalist garden, think about how you can fill every space with plants and create exciting visual displays wherever you look.
Use groundcovers, bulbs, and even vines in and around existing shrubs and perennials to add plants to every possible place in your landscape. Mix up textures, leaf shapes, sizes, and patterns to create a stunning presentation. Use color boldly and don’t be afraid to experiment with unexpected combinations within your color palette to create a space that is unique to you.
3. Designing a Modern Meadow
Modern meadows and naturalistic, Bohemian plantings are on the rise. These effortless, easy-going spaces are textural, layered, and full of movement.
The flowing beds in a Bohemian landscape borrow their inspiration from meadows and prairies but are filled with perennials, grasses, and other plants that are well-behaved and provide interest every month of the year in the Pacific Northwest. In our incredibly popular Bohemian Landscape Design Guide, we provide inspiration and plant recommendations to help you realize this relaxed vision in your own garden.
4. Green Drenching
Green drenching is a phenomenal way to create a biophilic space where the healing power of plants invites a deeper connection with the natural world. By blanketing walls in green, you’ll create a space that instantly invites calm and provides a mental reset.
Green drenching can provide a big impact even in a small space, and you can bring this larger trend home indoors or out. You can achieve a green drenched space indoors with a feature wall for houseplants by using specialized pots, mounting plants, or filling a shelf with trailing or hanging plants. Outdoors, think about applying the principals of green drenching to your outdoor patio by completely enclosing the sides of an outdoor living space using trellises, vines, or hedging plants.
5. Making a Habitat Garden
Gardens can be havens for people and for wildlife alike. Habitat gardening encourages us to look for new opportunities to invite bees, birds, and butterflies into the garden.
You can make simple, immediate improvements to encourage bird life by adding a birdbath or bubbler fountain, adding new plants that have late-season berries to provide food, and leaving the seedheads from grasses and perennials up through Fall and Winter for some free birdseed.
There are also a host of beautiful and useful pollinator plants that can help attract butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds to your garden. And if you’re really committed to creating a welcoming habitat for wildlife, let your lawn grow long in areas where it is unused to allow cover for bees and beneficial insects!
6. Container Gardening for Urban Spaces
When it comes to container gardening, the options are truly limitless! Container gardens provide anyone with even the smallest footprint of outdoor space with a way to incorporate beauty and express their personal style in these stand-alone plantings.
With container gardens, you can change out your plants with the seasons to curate a distinctive look and feel for each time of year. Or you can opt for something more permanent as a statement plant—Japanese Maples, conifers, olives, and other small trees can all thrive in containers for many years. Container gardens offer urban and patio gardeners a way to get their hands dirty and reap the benefits of gardening, even in the tiniest spaces!
7. Using Pantone’s Color of the Year
Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2025, Mocha Mousse, might not seem like the easiest color for gardeners to experiment with in their spaces. But we think that this warm, earthy brown is a fantastic accompaniment to gardeners seeking a chic, elevated aesthetic in their landscapes and containers.
Mocha Mousse is the color of late-season grasses, tremendously popular dusky roses like Koko Loko, and a fantastic foliage options found in the ever-increasing number of Heuchera varieties. Mocha Mousse works well in monochromatic container plantings, or as an accent to otherwise richly green landscapes.
No matter your gardening style, we think there is a 2025 gardening trend for anyone to embrace. Follow us on Instagram for inspiration and come visit us in store to find new and exciting ways to incorporate the gardening trends of 2025 into your own garden!