‘Gardens are not just for wanting at’ – Prolific backyard designer predicts tendencies for 2022

Sustainability, recycling and the use of indigenous vegetation are going to be traits which gardeners will be pursuing in 2022, professionals are predicting.

Award-successful yard designer and Tv presenter Ann-Marie Powell says priorities have improved due to the fact lockdown. 

“It’s about persons wanting extra levels in their backyard. Pre-lockdown, people required some thing awesome to search at. Publish-lockdown, persons want to have something that is stunning to be in. 

“People have realised gardens aren’t just for wanting at. They are areas that empower you to do one thing very good which will make you come to feel superior, building a place that is not only effective to you but helpful to the environment as perfectly.”

Embracing all seasons

The last leaves standing….#NaturePhotography #WinterGarden pic.twitter.com/8PozwTzwR6

— agroktima mourikio (@Evangel76283187) December 13, 2021

“I consider we’ll be adopting a new way of wondering about seasonality,” predicts Andrew Duff, running director of the Inchbald School Of Style.

“In the previous, we’ve tended to see autumn as the conclusion of the yr and the yard likely to mattress. But probably owing to lockdown, folks are viewing how thrilling winter season is and are beginning to embrace it.

“It’s to do with acceptance. In wintertime, we are realising that the branches of the trees, the solid daylight and the bare soil is an significant aesthetic in our calendar. It’s the skeletal mother nature of winter.”

Striving for less air miles

A small video clip of my greenhouse companions … #gyo #growyourown #back garden #gardening #allotment #veg #vegetables pic.twitter.com/SzzPAFhiRa

— Improve Your Have (@GrowYourOwn7) April 22, 2021

“Lots of persons will want elements of develop-your-possess and are keen to find out about foodstuff provenance,” claims Powell. “The vegan movement, healthier consuming and wellbeing, natural and no-dig – all those things are much a lot more in people’s psyche. Individuals want to know exactly where crops occur from, that they are chemical-free and have not travelled for countless numbers of miles.”

Heading indigenous

The cycle commences once again – hazel catkins opening.#catkins #hazel #hazelcatkins #corylus #corylusavellana #shelterbelt #hedgerow #indigenous #nativehedge #januaryflowers pic.twitter.com/xdhCnggRIP

— Tim Fuller (@PlantPref) January 5, 2021

“A development which is coming by means of is our acceptance of native species,” suggests Duff. “We are ultimately waking up to the glory of our indigenous plants, which perform well in our modifying local climate. They do so a lot for our indigenous wildlife and we are observing that arrive forward.”

Really veg

Pollen included #bumblebee in a #cardoon flower pic.twitter.com/gzV6CG6ZCy

— netherfield (@netherfield34) August 12, 2017

Powell reckons much more gardeners will be escalating decorative veg inside their flower beds somewhat than in a vegetable patch.

“Often persons are wanting a muddle of productive plants as effectively as wonderful perennial vegetation. Matters like cardoons, artichokes, we expand them as stunning ornamentals and it is the exact with apple trees. Heaps of vegetation that you would expand as ornamentals are edible.”

Landscaping variations

“With tricky landscape, upcycling and recycling will continue,” Duff predicts. “Gravel is becoming embraced due to the fact it is in everyone’s finances and it provides a far more purely natural feeling to the backyard as crops self-seed and spread to the gravel, presenting a softer aesthetic.”

Rewilding resumes

“Rewilding will proceed apace and we are eager on that mainly because every time you plant some thing it assists to shifting the earth in some form or variety. Vegetation lock in carbon, catch the attention of pollinators and develop habitat. It’s curated wilding,” Powell describes.

“If you produce pools of planting in amid pure landscape in which you are planting a mix of grasses and solitary flowers, which are the crops pollinators like to feast on, they are like nectar bars – spots of unfastened landscape with no intervention and swimming pools of planting among it.”

She endorses working with grasses these types of as Pennisetum ‘Fairy Tails’, miscanthus and anemanthele (pheasant’s tail grass).

#Pennisetum villosum on the lookout outstanding in the autumn sunshine #grassoftheday pic.twitter.com/X4xlCzmcYY

— Perryhill Nurseries (@PerryhillPlants) Oct 23, 2016

“It’s curated wilding, of as massive an space as you can, so you will be managing these areas in amongst the unmanaged areas. But it results in peaks of colour amid scrubby, grassy, brambly locations.

Ponds will be well-liked

“People seriously want drinking water in their gardens for the exact same aesthetic and advantageous wilding challenge. If you have h2o in your back garden, wildlife will come because they want to consume,” claims Powell.

A lot more ‘lasagne planting’ in smaller areas

For all my twitter gardeners – I’m going to try a bulb lasagne, has anyone at any time tried using with alliums?#bulblasagne #backyard #GardenersWorld #alliums pic.twitter.com/FvApzUW8eJ

— DavidsGYOadventure (@DavsStall) October 20, 2021

“Container gardening will carry on but men and women will be seeking to increase the time of curiosity,” Powell predicts. “Sarah Raven set the bulb lasagne (where by bulbs are planted in layers and flower at distinct situations) into people’s minds a handful of decades ago and people today with container gardens are actually comprehending that.

“It’s not just about appreciating the flower, it’s about that flower inviting company to your balcony or window box to make it possible for you the space and time to watch nature up shut and individual.”

Supplying houseplants outside house

Horticultural influencer Michael Perry, aka Mr Plant Geek, says:  “There is the forthcoming pattern of working with houseplants outside, right into pots combined with the standard summer flowering plants, or in borders and hanging baskets. The ideal candidates are spider plants, tradescantia, and perhaps even a specimen monstera. It’s the great way to gravitate indoor plant enthusiasts to the fantastic outdoor, even if they just have a window box.” 

The excitement term is sustainability

 

“It’s all about lower, re-use, recycle. We are searching at seeking to keep internet sites as neutral as possible with regards to using points out of the back garden. It could be crushing concrete that has arrive out of a sub foundation and re-utilizing it as a new footpath,” claims Powell.

“People will be imagining, ‘What have I by now got that I can re-use?’ It may possibly be a coal bucket or the within of an outdated washing equipment drum. On Instagram, I have witnessed people today employing the trays that grapes come in for developing seeds. It is not just about the aesthetics, it is about practicalities.”

Furnishings manner

“We phone it ‘dine and recline’, wherever your backyard results in being like a lounge, but I believe individuals are wanting issues that are a bit a lot more quirky than rattan. I’ve started off searching at steel which has a reclaimed classic vibe to it. That will last eternally. You can just throw a blanket about it,” suggests Powell.