Top Ten Garden Design Trends For 2025

Acacia Gardens has compiled its top ten garden design trends for 2025. Garden design is evolving to reflect a more profound commitment to sustainability, biodiversity, and functionality. From versatile outdoor living spaces to eco-conscious water solutions and wildlife-friendly features, the year’s top trends showcase a shift towards gardens that blend beauty with purpose. Here are the top ten garden design trends shaping outdoor spaces 2025, focusing on adaptability, nature-inspired aesthetics, and meaningful environmental interactions.

Our Top Ten Garden Design Trends 2025

1. Multifunctional Outdoor Spaces

In 2025, multifunctional outdoor spaces will be designed as adaptable extensions of the home, seamlessly blending zones for dining, work, play, wellness and entertainment. With flexible layouts, modular furniture, and weatherproofing features, these gardens are usable year-round and can quickly shift from workspaces to family gathering spots.

2. Wildlife-Friendly Garden Lighting

Responsible lighting design supports natural wildlife patterns in line with the ‘Dark Skies’ movement. Lighting is only in areas that need it, with lights that are no brighter than necessary and are only to be on when required. Downward pointing, dimmable lights are favoured rather than upward-directed lights, with warm colour temperatures.

3. Garden Rainwater Harvesting

We can use our heavy downpours sustainably by collecting rainwater from the roof’s downpipe, filtering it, and storing it in tanks. This reduces reliance on municipal water and is eco-friendly.

4. Naturalistic Gardens

Influenced by the wild garden trend, landscapes in 2025 will increasingly mimic natural settings with less formal, more organic shapes. Key elements include curved pathways, meadow planting, and native shrubs.

5. Pet-Friendly Landscapes

More pet owners seek designs that accommodate their furry friends. Landscapes with pet-safe plants, shaded areas, and dog-friendly water features will be a welcome trend. Add a dog-only sand play pit to keep digging in a designated area.

6. Biodiverse Garden Privacy Screens

Living screens and green barriers created with biodiversity in mind will replace traditional fences and walls. Layered hedges, trellises with flowering vines, and privacy plantings offer a natural alternative that supports wildlife.

7. Cottagecore Garden Revival

This nostalgic aesthetic combines cottage-style plantings, natural pathways, and cosy nooks. 2025 designs will be reinterpreted with more ecological sensitivity, using native plants and pollinator-friendly flowers in rustic, inviting layouts.

8. Garden Art Installations

Sculptures, custom stonework, and artistic installations will be incorporated to make a statement and add personality to outdoor spaces. Often locally sourced or created by artisans, these installations emphasise each garden’s uniqueness.

9. Regenerative Gardens

Going beyond sustainability, regenerative landscaping aims to restore ecosystems, improve soil health, and promote biodiversity. This may include composting, wildflower meadows, and pollinator-friendly habitats.

10. Outdoor Warm Minimalism

Warm minimalism emphasises natural, uncluttered outdoor spaces focusing on high-quality, eco-friendly materials. This trend incorporates warm-hued natural elements such as stone pathways in shades of taupe or beige, sandy-coloured gravel, and lightly stained timber benches. Planting schemes are kept simple. The result is a serene garden that feels open and intimate, blending with its natural surroundings.

Garden Colour Trends For 2025

In 2025, landscaping design embraces interior colour trends’ serene, grounded essence, translating these hues into garden spaces that reflect tranquillity and warmth. Sherwin-Williams’ and Benjamin Moore’s palettes’ earthy taupes, golden yellows, and soft blues inspire patio stones, outdoor furniture, and planters that blend seamlessly with their surroundings, creating a cohesive outdoor retreat. Similarly, Dulux’s Celestial Blue and C2 Paint’s Horizon Blue connect the sky and garden, encouraging blue-grey foliage and serene water features. Greens from Farrow & Ball, PPG, and Valspar add a natural vibrance with sage, olive, and forest shade plantings that evoke relaxation and harmony. These interior-inspired colours in landscape design foster soothing, layered outdoor spaces where indoor calm flows effortlessly outdoors.

Contact Acacia Gardens About Your Garden Design and Build Requirements

If you want to discuss your garden design and build project, please call Acacia Gardens. Our Garden Design team can help transform your outside space with these trends in mind or any other ideas you may have.