Revealed: The Top Outdoor Design Trends for 2025

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Inside Our Newest Trend Report

It’s a new era for landscape design—but in some ways, it’s never been more timeless. For many, this moment is about returning to basics: to endemic species of grasses, flowers, and trees; to planting formations that can withstand the elements; to furniture inspired by Mother Nature; and to bathing rituals that go back centuries. For AD PRO’s new 2025 Outdoor Forecast, presented by Marvin, we turned to leading outdoor specialists, designers, and builders from across the industry to mine their best advice for devising landscapes that speak to the moment we’re in environmentally, stylistically, and culturally. Inside, you’ll find insights on mitigating fire risk in outdoor design, designing gardens that endure, maximizing the footprint of alfresco spaces of all sizes, ideas for color palettes that work indoors or out, strategies for cultivating outdoor wellness amenities, and even pro-approved outdoor products. After all, as Grace Fuller Marroquin shared in our reporting, “It’s the designer’s job to paint a beautiful picture of what could be.”

For even more intel, I hope you’ll join us next Thursday as AD’s global interiors and garden director Alison Levasseur moderates an outdoor-focused virtual conversation with AD100 talents Sara Zewde and Oliver Freundlich. If you haven’t yet, you can register to attend here—both it and our trend report are just for members. Get into it!

—Lila Allen, Associate Director, AD PRO

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