Although spring planting is still months away, it’s never too early to start planning your 2025 garden. Whether you’re looking for something peaceful, vibrant, or bursting with life, Monrovia’s 2025 Garden Design Trends offers suggestions on how to make your dream garden a reality.
Drawing from an extensive analysis of consumer preferences and lifestyle connections, they’ve identified three key design trends that can help transform your outdoor space.
Let’s explore the trends shaping gardens this year.
Garden Design Trend #1: The Modern Meadow
Gardens inspired by nature are on the rise, with the Modern Meadow trend capturing the essence of wild beauty while maintaining a manageable design. This style combines colourful, pollinator-friendly perennials and graceful grasses in a way that’s both visually dynamic and ecologically beneficial. The result is a garden that feels natural yet refined, inviting movement, life, and tranquillity into your outdoor space.
As more gardeners turn to their hobby for mental health and well-being, the Modern Meadow offers a restorative environment that nurtures the spirit. With its low-maintenance and drought-tolerant qualities, this trend blends sustainability with aesthetic appeal, making it a favourite for those looking to bring nature closer to home or those who have a larger property with an area that you want to naturalize into a meadow.
Plants for creating your own Modern Meadow
Smoke Signal Little Bluestem is a beautiful grass that tops out at only 4 feet, Smoke Signal brings multiple colours and graceful movement to the garden. Its strong upright blue-green foliage takes on scarlet tones in late summer, deepening to purple through the fall.
Kudos Coral Dwarf Agastache This prolific new compact hybrid has coral-pink flower spikes and is a cheerful, carefree summer colour for beds, borders, or containers. It has an impeccable habit, increased hardiness, improved disease resistance, and tolerance of wet, cold soils.
Evolution™ Colorific™ Coneflower is a pollinator magnet with beautiful multi-coloured blooms. The bright, colour-changing flowers transition from pink, salmon, and rosy peach hues, and offer many different looks from late spring through fall.
Eversweet Strawberry is an everbearing variety that produces large, sweet berries in the spring with repeat crops about every six weeks through fall. Its bright green foliage looks good all season long.
Garden Design Trend #2: Bold Colours and Lush Layers
If you’re ready to shake up your garden with a little extra flair, this trend is for you. Bold, saturated colours are making a big comeback, bringing energy and personality to outdoor spaces. Think rich purples, fiery reds, and sunny yellows paired with cooling greens and crisp whites for contrast.
But it’s not just about the colours; it’s about layering them in a way that adds depth and texture. Imagine vibrant blooms framed by lush greenery, creating a garden that feels vibrant, joyful, and full of life. If your indoor spaces already reflect your playful, colourful style, why not let that energy flow outside too? From a design element, I recommend choosing a few colourful favourite plants but adding them in larger numbers and group them to create swaths of bold colour.
Plants that Add Bold Colour and Lush Layers
Panama™ Red Coneflower has striking red blooms that will make you stop to stare. This new coneflower stays compact in the garden, making it a perfect addition to the perennial border and containers.
Eau de Parfum™ Bling Rose adds so much to the garden. At the top of the list is its deep fuchsia blooms and layers of lush colour. Each variety in this series has a high petal count for that beautiful, traditional rose look. They’re also exceptionally fragrant and disease-resistant. There are four colours to choose from including Bling, Berry, Blush, and Bubbly.
Seaside Serenade® Newport is not just another beautiful hydrangea. This mophead variety features bold flowers that are a deep plum in acidic soils or a vibrant pink in more alkaline soils. Like its siblings in the Seaside Serenade® Collection, Newport features exceptionally strong stems that do not flop in windy or rainy weather. The blooms last up to 3 months.
Garden Candy™ Evie Jane Itoh Peony is covered in lush layers of double, glowing magenta blooms that feature sunny yellow centers. This compact peony holds the flowers closer to the foliage for a rounded ball of colour that doesn’t require staking.
Garden Design Trend #3: The Garden of Abundance
This trend is all about creating a garden that’s as productive as it is beautiful. By combining edible plants like blueberries, strawberries, and apples with ornamental favourites like hydrangeas and roses, you can craft a space that’s full of life—and flavour!
The Garden of Abundance is perfect for gardeners who want to feel more connected to nature and enjoy the fruits (literally) of their labour. There’s also a touch of nostalgia in this trend. It’s about creating spaces that remind us of simpler times—like a charming hedge of hydrangeas and blueberries or a corner where strawberries grow happily alongside roses. It’s a beautiful way to blend function, beauty, and a bit of old-fashioned charm.
Perfect Plants for the Garden of Abundance
Fruit Snacks™ Blushing Delight™ Columnar Apple If you thought you didn’t have room for an apple tree in your yard, think again. Fruit Snacks™ apples are compact and upright, growing only to about 2 feet wide and 10 feet tall, making them easy to plant in any yard.
Nitty Gritty™ White Groundcover Rose with its low growing habit can be a wonderful way to add sparkle to the garden. Nitty Gritty™ White features bright, double blooms that flower throughout the season. The entire Nitty Gritty collection makes it easy to grow roses, with fuss-free, own-root, low-maintenance plants.
Bountiful™ Belle Blueberry has stunning foliage that makes this blueberry the belle of the garden. Bountiful Belle’s new growth brings hues of icy rose and lime green. In fall and winter, it transitions to a rosy red. In summer it is covered with delicious plump berries. Topping out at 4 feet tall and wide, this blueberry delivers in every season.
Thumbelina Leigh English Lavender An extremely aromatic and profuse bloomer, this compact selection produces lovely spikes of violet-blue blooms up to three times per year! Prune back by one-half after flowering for best repeat show. This versatile, undemanding little evergreen shrub is ideal for edging, containers, low borders, and rock gardens.
Ready to Get Started?
Whether you’re dreaming of a meadow-inspired retreat, a vibrant explosion of colour, or a garden that feeds both your soul and your table, Monrovia’s trends are more than just design ideas—they’re about creating spaces that make you feel good, connect you with nature, and add joy to your everyday life.
So, what’s your 2025 garden going to look like? Whatever your style, now’s the perfect time to start planning and talking to your local garden centres about any plants you are looking for.
Find your new favourite plants in Monrovia’s Distinctive Selections Guide.
About Monrovia
Inspired by the beauty of plants, gardens, and landscapes everywhere, Harry E. Rosedale, Sr. founded Monrovia in 1926 to be a premier grower of shrubs and trees. Monrovia collaborates with plant breeders around the world to introduce improved plant varieties to North America. Monrovia plants flourish once planted to beautify gardens and landscapes. Visit Monrovia.com to learn more.