Top Gardening Trends of 2024

When you look at some of the garden trends we have seen, you can see we are aiming to create a garden we can enjoy all year round. Many people have moved away from shrubbed areas and larger plants. Moving into the modern era of gardening. Covid changed gardening forever and added new trends many of us would have never thought of. 

Check Our Top Gardening Trends of 2024

Bring The Indoors Out.

Over the past few years, indoor features have slowly leaked into the outside world. Many people want to create an environment where their garden becomes an extension of their indoor living areas. This allows you to create a space outside that has that indoor feel while still allowing you to enjoy the late summer evenings.

The main way we have seen this done is through the use of outdoor furniture. People spend money on resting in the perfect setting for their garden. Many homeowners have started adding outdoor cooking areas or hot tubs to create that indoor feeling within their gardens. Check out some other ways you can incorporate this trend into your garden.

Easy Transitions

The best way to create that easy transition between your living area and garden is to include bi-fold doors. They allow you to add more natural light to your living area and remove that barrier between your home and garden. They have become very popular in modern new builds.

Covered Spaces

If you're looking for an outdoor space but want to use it all year round. Our suggestion would be to create a pergola. Pergolas allow you to create a space in your garden that is suitable all year round. Bring your indoor features outside and keep them protected.

Horti-Futurism

Horti-futurism is a contemporary garden style that combines eco-friendly practices, technology, and innovation to create a vision that resembles a science fiction scene. It's inspired by sustainable techniques and contemporary garden design and focuses on preserving and making landscapes more resilient.

Adding Colour

One way to make your garden look more futuristic is to add colour. Achieve that horti-futurism look by adding a range of bright and neon colours to your garden. Neon hues, metallic tones, and silver or iridescent foliage look the best as they add the most colour.

Use Sustainable Materials

If you want your garden to look more eco-friendly. Using materials that have been recycled or repurposed is the perfect way to lean into the futuristic look. Natural elements and materials like glass can also be used to create a nice contrast in textures.

One example that is great in the UK is adding a water chain. Rather than your standard guttering. You have a water chain that allows rainwater to naturally flow down the chain and potentially be stored in a water butt.

Water Features

As we have just mentioned, adding eco-friendly features to your garden is a great way to be trendy. Well, adding other water features in your garden has been popular but has grown a bit since lockdown. In 2024, we have seen a rise in the number of customers looking to add water features to their gardens.

Rainwater

As mentioned before, one of the best water features in your garden is rainwater storage. There are many cool and funky ways you can do this. From your simple water butt and guttering to adding water chains or a solar power pump allowing you to use your hosepipe with your water butt. The ideas are endless.

Drought-Resistant Plants

Plants that used to live in the dryer regions of the world, such as the Mediterranean, have evolved to thrive in areas that have dryer soils and little to no rainfall. With our ever-changing climate and extra weather events, droughts are becoming more likely. So having plants that can thrive no matter the weather is a great idea.

Many drought-tolerant plants have silver or grey-green leaves, their light leaf colour reflecting the harsh rays of the sun. Some have a coating of fine hairs on their leaves or stems, helping to trap moisture around the plant tissues.

Anti-Gardening

When it comes to anti-gardening. That doesn’t mean don’t do any. It means allowing your garden to grow. Whether this trend has come from lazy homeowners or scientific research, anti-gardening has become more popular in recent years. Allowing your garden to grow naturally while being contained and controlled to keep its natural beauty. 

This wild-looking garden does not simply let nature run its course. A gardener works full time to ensure this balance between nature and garden is maintained. They also make sure species competition remains mixed, creating the widest potential offering in terms of biodiversity.

Wild Plants

Allowing a section of your garden to be overtaken by wild plants is a great way to get into the ant gardening trend. You can create a safe and open environment for any type of plant to grow and thrive. While maintaining the height and width to make sure the plants don’t take over your garden.

Smart Gardening

The smart garden is beginning to increase in popularity, with technology that makes it easy to grow indoors. But what exactly is a smart garden, and are they any good?

A smart garden is an indoor garden, usually housed in a small-ish plastic box, which has an inbuilt grow light, space for growing 'pods', or soil, and seeds. It will indicate when water is low—either by connecting to your phone via an app or by visual means, with a counter. It provides the amount of light needed to grow your crops, and so it doesn't need to be placed near a windowsill.

Smart Garden Pods?

These are little pods of soil or growing media containing seeds. They allow you to create the perfect environment for a selection of plants to grow in. They tend to be for indoor use and are popular for hormones with small or no gardens at home. They can also come with smart apps that will let you know when water moisture is low or when there is too much or too little heat.

Garden management apps like “Garden Manager” and “GardenTags” can track plant and seed inventory, gardening guides, pests and diseases, and suppliers to give you a full overview of your garden and the nutrients it needs to thrive.

Garden Structures

Garden structures can include a variety of different features, from gazebos and trellises to pergolas and outdoor buildings; the range is endless. These outdoor structures allow you to create defined areas in your garden for different uses.

Pergolas

Pergolas are one of the most interesting ways you can change your garden. Allowing them to blend into your garden with climbing plants like roses will increase the colour of your garden. You can also use a garden pergola to give yourself extra privacy. You can browse many different sizes and styles. We sell all the materials you will need to create your own pergola at home.

Trellises

We have a wide selection of garden trellises for sale, including trellis fences and panels that come in a wide range of sizes and styles. You’ll find something to suit every garden design. Whether you choose to use your trellis panel to make a garden boundary or to create an eye-catching fixture on an unremarkable wall, we have the product for you.

Garden Arches

Display a striking garden arch as an entrance to a pathway or to form borders between hedges and fences in your outdoor space. Our garden arches are built to last and made from durable wood or metal materials. Create an eye-catching focal point to enjoy in your outdoor space by supporting climbing plants, flowers, and vines on your garden arch.

Elite Omega Top Arch

The Elite Omega Top Arch has a decorative diamond trellis combined with a gently curved arch, ideal for growing plants on. The arch is simple and easy to build, providing the perfect entry to different sections of your garden and creating a traditional and romantic look.

Rose Arch

The Rose Arch is a traditional feature with a pronounced arch and square trellis, perfect for growing roses up surprisingly. This beautiful feature covered in gorgeous roses brings a classic and romantic feel to your backyard.

DuraPost

Compared with homeowners using conventional wooden decking, installation of composite decking is considerably easier and takes less time.

The construction materials used in composite decking consist of a combination of wood fibres and plastics, which provides a cost-effective, durable, long-lasting, low-maintenance, lightweight, and excellent finishing solution to user home outdoor building needs.

Decking

Composite decking is a great feature you can include in your garden. All our composite decking is made from high-strength material and is a wood-plastic mix, comprising 60% recycled hardwood fibres and 40% recycled plastics. Meaning it's not only good for your garden but also great for the environment.

Fencing

Similar to composite decking, our fencing brings all the same advantages with a 25-year warranty. Adding a composite fence to your garden will create a modern feel to your home. Composite fencing looks better all year round and is also much easier to maintain.

Some of the trends we talked about above will most likely continue to grow and evolve in the next few years. But don't be afraid to create your garden trends and share them with us on social media.

 If you have any questions about your garden, don't be afraid to get in touch with us.