You'll want to implement these 5 garden trends from Gardeners' World Live 2025 in your own garden right away

Gardeners' World Live is one of the UK's biggest gardening events, where you can find inspiration from both the show gardens and the various stalls full of plants, garden ornaments and tools. Editor Iona went out and shares 5 garden trends that caught her eye at the event.

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A natural shelter for garden animals with wood, surrounded and overgrown by plants. — This shelter for garden animals blends in with the garden through the planting. Photo: Iona van den Dries.

One of the first things I noticed at this event was how many gardens were focused on increasing biodiversity. Atmospheric insect hotels and shelters were seamlessly interwoven with varied planting and other garden elements. There was even a working beehive! In the first photo you can see a beautiful insect shelter that blends in with the planting in the garden. In the show garden in the second photo, there was attention for animals on every level of the garden, from hanging insect hotels to containers full of beautiful flowers and flowering herbs, and wooden discs in the ground for specific beetle species. The soil animals are not forgotten here!

A garden with different layers such as a box full of succulents, an insect hotel, plants and wooden discs in the ground. — A garden completely furnished for all kinds of garden animals, from flying insects to beetles. Photo: Iona van den Dries.

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A round green door with nasturtiums growing over it, surrounded by a border of wood and other vegetable plants. — Edible nasturtiums adorn this door among the vegetable garden plants.

Also striking at this event were the potagers : the ornamental vegetable gardens. Flowers, vegetables, herbs, fruit: these elements find each other in various show gardens and enhance each other's beauty. A strawberry looks like a jewel among the various flowers or the leaf of a cabbage stands out even better. These show gardens also showed that a vegetable garden section does not have to take up much space, but that you can also plant containers in a way that is a delight to the palate and a feast for the eyes.

A box with strawberries and various flowers, surrounded by a border of even more types of flowers, including Digitalis. — The strawberries look like jewels among the flowers! Photo: Iona van den Dries.

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A large square border full of flowers, a frog statue and 3 beautiful, rose gold insect watering places. — These rose gold insect watering holes in the middle look like flowers themselves! Photo: Iona van den Dries.

One of the most amazing features of these show gardens was how they used water in the garden in different ways. A water feature does not necessarily have to take up a large space in your garden, while it can be an interesting garden element and a nice addition for your garden animals. For example, you found insect drinking places (the photo above) and decorative bowls with water. Of course, there were also larger water features, such as ponds (the photo below) and even small waterfalls and water streams.