Garden & Outdoor
Garden and Trends 2021 In recent research completed by Love the Garden (www.lovethegarden.com) by closely monitoring activity on Instagram, some of the top trends for Garden and Outdoor décor for 2021 have been revealed. By analysing over 100 different gardening hashtags they were able to find those trends growing in popularity and set to become even more dominant in 2021. Here are the trends that your customers are thinking about:
#WildGarden Instagrammers are going wild for wild gardens! One of the biggest trends is the wild garden that encourages life and wildlife. Long wild grass is ideal as are plant vines that ramble over fences or walls – they can hide these human-made structures and create a wild and untamed look in just a single season. Singleflowering varieties of plants and open flowers are ideal for bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects.
into the other. The garden should feel like an extension of the home. Both your customer’s interior and exterior design must work in harmony. Choose plants that work both indoors and out to create a transition between the living and outside space.
#RaisedBedGarden Raised bed gardens are a simple and effective trend growing among Instagram gardeners, creating a fantastic feature in an outside space. It’s an ideal option for customers with little room in their garden, giving them better control over the soil and making plant caring much easier. Old railway sleepers work well for a rustic look. Raised flower beds can be used to grow whatever plants or fruit and veg your customer desires once they will work in the chosen garden spot.
#TinyGardens
#InsideOutside The inside outside garden trend is all about creating flow from inside space to outdoor space, so one naturally flows
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Many homeowners and renters have little outdoor space to make do with. So, with a tiny garden, it’s all about making the space look bigger. Options include growing up to use vertical space, laying borders, having clear pathways, and creating specific zones or outdoor rooms. Long flowering perennials, evergreens and climbers will all do the job in your customer’s tiny garden space. January/February 2021
