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: https://youtu.be/0Dt-Z0gzpQw 04:12 Drought-resilient planting in gravel, sand and rubble gardens 08:42 The Sand Garden video with Tom Brown: https://youtu.be/dBJgqdq8rDI 09:22 The xerophytic drought resilient garden with Errol Fernandes at the Horniman Museum and Gardens: https://youtu.be/6CvPuaib_XM 12:58 An easy way to mulch from 'A Beautiful Garden Doesn't Have to Be Hard Work' with Anne Wareham: https://youtu.be/o0nvbeAWg44 14:17 Leave the leaves! Another easy way to mulch. 15:09 Why I Don't Cut Back My Garden in Autumn: https://youtu.be/XXbz-f7wl-M 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: https://youtu.be/2i_BAJdVoNE 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-we-do/rhs-state-of-gardening 19:22 Highlights from RHS Hampton Court (https://youtu.be/kEeRtiePxFM) and BBC Gardeners World Live (https://youtu.be/uRgoMnLG67g) 19:57 An artistic & wildlife-friendly way of clearing your garden from Errol Fernandes: https://youtu.be/6CvPuaib_XM 24:54 The winter garden at Kew: https://youtu.be/0OxwrKQuai0 25:23 Tony Hall of Kew Gardens' top 10 scented plants for your garden video:https://youtu.be/aJ8bTH3YULw 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: https://youtu.be/lf_JeStOC1o 29:05 Add definition to wilder borders: What is A Blobbery video with Guy Watts of Architectural Plants: https://youtu.be/j5fHdSsMnkE 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: https://youtu.be/f42f3GtJuos 32:45 Beth Chatto head gardener Asa Gregors-Warg on top autumn plants: https://youtu.be/fZpuuNqDxMc 33:36 Jamie Butterworth, author of What Grows Together book: https://amzn.to/4q44ftW 34:30 Putting plants together video with Jamie Butterworth: https://youtu.be/CdGgaKRz0kE
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