According to Garden Media’s 2025 Garden Trends Report, this season promises to be Nature’s Renaissance. There’s a hunger for more green spaces. Fortunately, you can have a nature renaissance in your backyard this year.

In this blog post, you’ll learn more about garden trends, including

• Why Gardening and Landscape Trends Matter
• What’s Cooking in Garden Trends 2025
• Tips for a Trendy, Water-Efficient Landscape.

Why Gardening and Landscape Trends Matter

If you’re a landscaping company, you must understand current trends because your customers will want to know how to incorporate these new ideas into their outdoor spaces.

Dynascape.com says that landscape design is constantly evolving. While it may be hard to keep up, you can still consult Garden Media and Axiom for ideas about this year's outdoor styles.

It also helps your business when selling services to new customers. Show them that you can design and build trendy landscapes.

Here are five trends that Jobber.com cites for 2024 but are still relevant in 2025:

1. Choose native plants for your area. These are more sustainable, attract pollinators, and are more drought-tolerant.
2. Drought-tolerant landscaping called Xeriscaping. Xeriscaping doesn’t mean just rocks and stones. Native plants, including perennials, trees, and shrubs, add color, texture, and scent to xeriscapes.
3. More edible landscaping. Axiom reports that Gens Y and Z are expected to spend more on their gardens in 2025, including edible landscaping.
4. Staycation landscaping, where you design and build vacation stations in customers’ backyards.
5. More millennials and Gen Zers are focused on reducing pesticide use on their property because of the danger it poses to people and pets. You can coach these homeowners to use IPM (Integrated Pest Management) to keep weeds and pests to a minimum without toxic chemicals.

What’s Cooking in Garden Trends 2025

Garden Media Garden Trends Report and Axiom’s Gardening Outlook Study are two garden trend reports for the commercial green industry. Both come out in the fall for the following spring season.

As a landscape company, you can download both reports to see what’s hot in 2025 and what’s not.

Here are six trends that Garden Media highlighted in their report:

1. Adding more green spaces, including lawns, trees, and perennials.
2. Connecting in person, including at outdoor destinations where homeowners host parties.
3. Young homeowners want a lived-in landscape with mature trees and beds, where your landscaping expertise will be needed for maintenance.
4. Since new homes are built densely, homeowners want living fences that provide privacy, noise reduction, and other environmental benefits. These green benefits include reducing soil erosion, conserving water, and softening HOA-mandated white, taupe, and beige paint.
5. Garden Trends suggested that you sell living wall benefits beyond selling privacy. Wildlife-friendly, estate-worthy, natural, and wild are four benefits to include in marketing living walls.
6. Teal is the color of 2025. Garden Media reports that teal symbolizes wellness and provides a calming effect. You can incorporate a patina or teal in container gardening. Encourage homeowners to buy plants with teal overtones, including succulents, hydrangeas, and blue fescue ornamental grasses.

Tips for a Trendy, Water-Efficient Landscape

According to Axiom’s Garden Trends Report, men and Gen Zers plan to spend more time gardening in 2025, so they may need your help creating a trendy, water-efficient landscape.

For example, homeowners may need you to design and install an irrigation system in their lawns, a dripline in their flowerbeds, and bubblers for their trees, shrubs, and groundcovers.

You’ll also be able to encourage these gardeners to break up their landscaping and gardens into hydrozones based on their plants’ watering needs. Guide homeowners regarding their property's microclimates and planting the right plants in the right place.

Conversely, homeowners in these demographics may hire you to design and plant their landscapes since you’re the expert, and they only want what’s best for their properties. They may want to take full responsibility for the maintenance piece, but you can give them that start to gardening success.

You want to educate your audience on water-efficient landscapes, adding natives because they’re acclimated to the local climate and more drought-tolerant than non-natives. Upload a list of native plants that grow well in your region to your website. Consider becoming a coach as well as a landscaper.

Finally, encourage homeowners to add mulch, which retains moisture in the soil and keeps plants cool during the hottest part of the year.

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Sources:
AxiomCom.com, 2025 Axiom Gardening Outlook Study.
DynaScape.com The Top 5 Landscape Design Trends for 2023.
GardenMediaGroup.com, 2025 Garden Trends Report: Nature’s Renaissance.
Jobber.com, 25 Landscaping Industry Statistics + The Trends to Watch in 2024.