The end of year celebrations are part of the beautiful memories and 2023 has just started. Like every new year, good resolutions are in the news, but if you don’t like this journalistic “chestnut tree”, turn to the new trends ready to impose themselves in the garden in 2023! Indeed, the periods favorable to the planting of shrubs and perennials continue until the beginning of spring, excluding the frost period of course. Despite the disturbing mildness of this beginning of the year, already imagine your garden on the sunny days of 2023 by planting plants that will offer decorative foliage and magnificent flowers if the heat wave does not cause too much damage. Each year, Promise of Flowers unveils spring-summer garden trendswe offer you the main lines for 2023.
A water-saving garden
Global warming, which is hitting gardens harder and harder every summer with episodes of intense heat leading to watering restrictions, forces us to review our gardening practices, choose new types of plants and find tips to cope with these recurring droughts.
Plants usually intended for the dry garden are becoming more and more popular in our gardens thanks to their ability to withstand lack of water and the scorching sun. Their often graphic silhouette reinforces the character of the garden, so take a look at the agave, yucca, opuntia… Also discover other small plants called “succulents” such as the Sempervivum Or Sedum which come in a wide variety of colors, textures, sizes, shapes, etc. They were rather reserved for collectors. And for those with a sweet tooth, Mediterranean fruit trees are now being planted more and more in the north…
Our new favorite : THE Lespedeza bicolor ‘Yakushima’a clover tree, with deciduous foliage, water-saving, which is distinguished by its very beautiful flowering of a bright dark pink in summer until early autumn.
A sustainable and circular garden
Climate change invites us to discover sobriety, recycling, the preservation of ecosystems, it is the application to the garden of what is commonly called in everyday life the circular economy and sustainable development. You will learn how to collect your own seeds or start regrowing!
This obviously involves choosing to cultivate native, local species, also honey-producing and flowering, which will be able to best adapt to climate change: welcome to mallows, foxgloves, lavatera… And this is rekindling the craze for wild picking (in organic farming areas), for culinary or medicinal purposes: lime blossom, thyme, sage, chamomile, echinacea, etc.
On the decoration side, recycling is gaining momentum: alongside the palettes already revisited, there are diverted metal objects which are gradually covered with rust, which find harmony with plants in orange-brown or silver-blue tones.
Our new favorite : THE Camellia sinensis Théojardin supporting up to -10°C and whose leaves make it possible to make a delicious tea to drink warm while waiting for spring!
A generously planted and very colorful garden
Vegetation helps limit the rise in the thermometer during periods of high heat, which explains the tendency for large, lush, climbing, even fruit-bearing plants, making it possible to cover a low wall or create a herbaceous to shrubby mass instead of place of a simple lawn. Be careful though, these often exotic plants are water-intensive: reserve them for naturally humid areas of your garden.
The garden must be colorful in 2023 with always the warm and flamboyant tones of 2022 to which are added the colors burgundy red, bright red and darker purple foliage, which give character to your beds.
Our new favorite : I’Heptacodium miconioides Temple of Bloom is a low-maintenance cultivar from the Seven-Flower Tree, whose flowers and bracts turn pink and red until autumn, fading nicely!
Visit garden centres, nurseries, browse catalogs, order your plants on websites, in particular with flower promiseand treat yourself to make your garden, your terrace or your balcony welcoming and voluptuous!
(photo credits: Flower promise)
Written by Nathalie on 02/01/2023