New Year, New Space: 2025 Landscape Design Trends
What’s hot and what’s not in landscape design trends for 2025?
2025 is here and our designers are taking stock of the most popular trends in functionality and style in the ever-evolving world of landscape design. Over the past few years, serene personal sanctuaries, full outdoor rooms, and technology galore have graced our gardens across DFW. The pandemic illuminated the indispensability of beautiful, multifunctional outdoor living spaces, and awoke the need for an outside home away from home. Since then, the essentials have been redefined, and often vary by personal interest or lifestyle. From plantings and color to heat sources and hardscapes, hear our designers’ picks on which landscape design trends are passé and which ones are here to stay.
Renson’s customizable options allow you to personalize your pergola with options like automatic solar shading, LED lighting, or integrated audio and heating elements.
Covered Outdoor Spaces
Whether you seek shelter from the storm or a shady refuge from the radiating sun, here in north Texas, incorporating cover into your outdoor space is more than just a landscape design trend—it’s a necessary reprieve. One of our favorite finds to extend your outdoor enjoyment are Renson’s posh, aluminum pergolas and modular trellises. These minimalist marvels fuse architecture with nature and adapt to your aesthetic and lifestyle preferences.
Crafted from recyclable materials, Infratech’s low-profile infrared heaters utilize earth-friendly technology to operate with zero greenhouse emissions, odors, or ultraviolet light.
Infrared Heaters
While they may lack in luster compared to a traditional fire, radiant heat sources are the best outdoor heating solution for the environment. Utilizing green infrared quartz technology, these electric energy sources blanket your space with waves of bountiful warmth. Ceiling and wall-mounted patio heaters emit heat in a streamlined fashion while taking up little entertaining space while durable, free-standing patio heaters allow for portability.
Surround yourself with consistent infrared warmth, in an array of styles to suit your home’s architecture. Capitalize on this toasty technology and enlist the help of our designers to source and install your earth-friendly heat source to extend your outdoor living.
Lumacast’s sculptural concrete fire pits are architecturally designed for functionality, aesthetics, and durability.
Fire Pits vs Fireplaces
Another popular landscape design trend in outdoor heat sources is fire pits. Now, don’t get us wrong, we love designing and installing integrated outdoor fireplaces. However, we’ve noted a rise in demand for fire pits lately. Depending on the type of fire pit, materials implemented, and overall design, these smokeless superheaters can often be durable, weather-resistant, and long-lasting. Their freestanding style also facilitates greater connection as friends and family are forced to gather around it to gaze into each others’ eyes as much as the flames. Allow us to custom design a fire pit for your space or source and install the perfect one for your aesthetic.
Our diligent designers created an expansive L-shaped barbeque area wrapped in white local Caesar stone, featuring chef-inspired Hestan outdoor equipment.
Outdoor Kitchens
What better way to unite your favorites than through food? Our experts can customize an outdoor cook space with materials that suit your home’s architectural style, and incorporate features that strike your fancies such as a wine fridge, beer tap, warmer, pizza oven, sink, and plenty of storage space. So serve up seasonal Saturday morning pancakes, fire up the grill for taco Tuesdays, and get creative with toppings on pizza Fridays.
This wall-mounted outdoor television was designed for flexible viewing from the bar, grill, pool, or entertaining space.
Outdoor TVs
With today’s technology, outdoor entertainment is a snap by implementing weather-resistant A/V systems with flexible swing mounts for viewing at any angle. Gather the group for the latest sporting event or catch up on the news over morning coffee.
Infusing Color
Color can evoke emotion, enhance beauty, or create a focal point in your landscape. Whether it’s portrayed through plants, pool tile, fabrics, pottery, furnishings, or outdoor sculpture, now is the time to experiment with color in your landscape design. With Pantone’s Color of the Year depicting the color of the earth, you can let your imagination run wild or get inspiration from their latest color palettes.
Container Plant Clusters
One way to add more color to your landscape is through container plants. Whether it’s through the hue of the pot or the tint of the blooms, containers allow for increased variety, portability, and flexibility of design. The latest landscape design trend is to enliven the garden with clusters of pots on patios or within garden beds.
Hardy Plants
Speaking of plants, with global warming and our unpredictable north Texas weather, drought-resistant gardens showcasing native or well-adapted plants are all the rage. Whether it’s a plant unique to our area, or just a resilient specimen, seasonal planting of cold-hardy and heat-hardy plants is the way to go for DFW. From cacti to agave and native grasses and shrubs, your personal garden manager can guide you through plant selections suitable for your landscape’s soil and sun conditions.
Geometric tiles by Ann Sacks (above) and natural ceramic tiles by Arto (below) are coveted by our clients.
Ceramic Pool Tile vs Mosaic Tile
These days, our designers recommend more ceramic pool tile over porcelain or glass mosaic tile for numerous reasons. These non-porous tiles not only help prevent water damage and discoloration, but they offer a safer swim area with their non-slip surface. Fired at high temperatures, these low-maintenance ceramics boast extreme durability—ideal for chemicals, climate change, and everyday wear and tear. These cost-effective tiles are easy to cut and install and are available in a wide variety of patterns, shapes, colors to create a completely customizable style for everyone’s taste.
The Sound of Water
Whether inside or outside of a pool environment, there’s no sound more relaxing than the soothing serenity of falling water. In fact, scientists have found a direct link between water and cognitive and physical health. The sights and sounds of oceans, lakes, pools, rivers, creeks, and fountains create a meditative state that directly contributes to happiness, health, relaxation, creativity, and an increased sense of wonder.
These sleek, stylish sound machines can be designed in an array of styles to accommodate personal taste and complement your home’s architecture. Plus, not only are water features beautiful, but they’re fashionably functional. From relieving stress and reducing outside noise to cooling your pool and keeping the water clean, water features provide a plethora of added benefits.
Enliven Your Landscape in 2025
Bringing you over 4o years of knowledgeable expertise and innovation, our team is eager to serve you in 2025. Enlist our talented designers, craftsmen, and installers to usher you into the latest landscape design trends to enhance your gardens for the new year and beyond. Contact us today to schedule a consultation.
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