6 Gardening Lessons From 2025 You'll Use Forever

How 2025 changed our gardens - here are the best gardening tips, ideas and advice from the top experts I've interviewed this year. These new ways of gardening will help you garden with less water, less work and less cost - and they're not quick 'hacks' or fleeting fashions - they are the changes many of us are making in our gardens forever. 00:00 How gardening has changed 00:57 Gardening with less water 01:20 Video on saving time and water with RHS expert Janet Manning:    • Save Time & Water! Garden Watering Tips fr...   04:12 Drought-resilient planting in gravel, sand and rubble gardens 08:42 The Sand Garden video with Tom Brown:    • The Sand Garden - A Bold New Trend in Resi...   09:22 The xerophytic drought resilient garden with Errol Fernandes at the Horniman Museum and Gardens:    • Garden Ideas That Will Shape The Future   12:58 An easy way to mulch from 'A Beautiful Garden Doesn't Have to Be Hard Work' with Anne Wareham:    • A Beautiful Garden Doesn't Have to Be Hard...   14:17 Leave the leaves! Another easy way to mulch. 15:09 Why I Don't Cut Back My Garden in Autumn:    • Why I Don't Cut Back My Garden for Winter   16:35 Self-seeders, pioneer species and wildflowers as a less work, less cost alternative to annual bedding plants 16:50 Highlights and tips from RHS Chelsea 2025:    • What the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 Mean...   17:25 You don't need a perfect lawn - Monty Don at RHS Chelsea 2025 18:37 The RHS State of Gardening Report: https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-us/what-... 19:22 Highlights from RHS Hampton Court (   • 5 Garden Ideas You Need to Try: What's New...  ) and BBC Gardeners World Live (   • Garden Design Inspiration | BBC Gardeners'...  ) 19:57 An artistic & wildlife-friendly way of clearing your garden from Errol Fernandes:    • Garden Ideas That Will Shape The Future   24:54 The winter garden at Kew:    • Brilliant plant combinations for vibrant w...   25:23 Tony Hall of Kew Gardens' top 10 scented plants for your garden video:   • 10 top scented plants to transform your ga...   25:38 Gardening With Scented Plants book by Tony Hall: https://amzn.to/3YjsuZ3 (affiliate link, see below) 27:17 Garden design details video - advice and tips from Tomoko Kawauchi and Charlotte Rowe of Charlotte Rowe Garden Design:    • Garden design in is the detail - how to tr...   29:05 Add definition to wilder borders: What is A Blobbery video with Guy Watts of Architectural Plants:    • The Garden Design Hack You've Never Heard ...   30:00 Don't overlook the importance of garden furniture! Garden design tips video with James Alexander Sinclair and Joe Swift of the James & Joe Garden Show:    • Garden Design Tips You'll Actually Use...f...   32:45 Beth Chatto head gardener Asa Gregors-Warg on top autumn plants:    • The Simple Beth Chatto Rules That Transfor...   33:36 Jamie Butterworth, author of What Grows Together book: https://amzn.to/4q44ftW 34:30 Putting plants together video with Jamie Butterworth:    • How to Design a Border Without Overthinkin...   For garden ideas, gardening advice, garden design and landscaping ideas for your garden or backyard, subscribe to the Middlesized Garden YouTube channel here:    / themiddlesizedgardencouk   Whether you love English garden style, cottage gardens or contemporary urban gardening, The Middlesized Garden has gardening advice and garden ideas for you. Weekly videos cover gardening advice and garden design - from small space gardens to middle-sized garden landscaping - plus garden tours and tips for container gardening. The Middlesized Garden practices sustainability, wildlife gardening and no till methods. If your garden backyard is smaller than an acre, join us and enjoy your garden even more! The Middlesized Garden Complete Guide to Garden Privacy is available in Kindle or paperback in 13 countries (in English only). If you'd like your garden to feel more private, click here for availability in your country: https://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.u... #gardening #gardendesign #backyardgarden For small and middlesized backyards and gardens.... See The Middlesized Garden blog: http://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/ For Amazon storefront see: https://www.amazon.com/shop/themiddle... Note: links to Amazon are affiliate which means I get a small fee for qualifying purchases. It doesn't affect the price you pay and I only recommend things I use myself or really think you'd like! More garden ideas on Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.co.uk/midsizega... Twitter:   / midsizegarden   Facebook:   / themiddlesizedgarden