From ‘edimentals’ to orange flowers – experts reveal gardening trends for 2025, with one cheap hack set to dominate
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WHAT with rows over ‘rewilding’ your garden, desperately searching for new drought tolerant plants, and the constant social media one-upmanship of Dahlia blooms - it’s been an interesting 2024 for gardening. But what does 2025 bring us? I asked influential horticulturalists their predictions.
![[BBC GQT panellist Matt Pottage thinks gardeners will find a good balance.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/NINTCHDBPICT000959464651.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
BBC Gardeners Question Time regular and Head of Horticulture and Landscape Strategy at The Royal Parks, Matt Pottage said: “I predict the trend towards more environmentally-sensitive styles of gardening will continue, as gardeners strive to be ‘greener’, although there is a lot of scope to showcase colourful, vibrant and pollinator-friendly planting, which doesn’t necessarily look like a ‘wildlife garden’.
![[Tom Massey is urging us to save water this year]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2021-show-held-first-time-868622086.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
“Not everyone wants meadows and log piles, but equally those same gardeners might not want tight mown grass and bedding plants either. "So, I think that 2025 will be the year when new styles of planting begin to emerge that feel ‘horticultural’, but have a consideration for the environment too.”.
![[Gardening Express boss Chris Bonnett predicts a year of thrifty gardening]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/gardening-chris-bonnett-932037800.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
Chelsea Gold winner and Your Garden Made Perfect regular Tom Massey said: "Waterwise gardening is poised to become a leading trend in the UK by 2025, driven by increasing awareness of climate change and the urgent need to adopt sustainable water use practices at home and in gardens.
![[Matthew Butler and Josh Parker want you to grow sweet pototoes]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/NINTCHDBPICT000959464883.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
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