Discover exclusively our trends notebook for Garden trends 2026 identified by our experts! Green Generation, Retro Garden or Augmented Garden, we reveal the five emerging currents that reinvent garden practices and the imaginations of the garden. Based on this monitoring, Promesse de fleurs shares its forward-looking reading and field observations of the garden of tomorrow.
Green Generation
The Millennials: a new plant tribe born on Instagram! They are aged 28 to 44, often live in cities, and have made houseplants a lifestyle. Houseplants—Ficus lyrata, Calathea, Alocasia, Colocasia, and Monstera—have become icons, iconic design pieces and organic accents. The greenery here becomes emotional, identity-driven and graphic. This green frenzy is ultra-connected, Instagrammable, viral, but deeply emotional. We speak of "Plant Parenting": 33% of Millennials talk to their plants, 19% give them a name, 29% regard them as sentient beings. We collect spectacular foliage (Monstera 'Thai Constellation', Caladium, Begonias 'Rex'), we stage its interior, and we share its urban jungle on TikTok (#planttok) or Instagram (#urbanjungle, 8 million posts).
Jardin Nostalgique
Here is a decidedly retro and comforting gardening trend! In the face of world uncertainties, and at a time when AI is generating artificial universes, the garden embraces a nostalgic vogue that expresses this deep longing for reassurance and tenderness. We sow, we take cuttings, we glean and compose home-made bouquets. The retro flower gets a second life. Double ranunculus, gladioli but especially dahlias (+12% in sales) and peonies (+37%) at Promesse de fleurs, which explode on social networks, are the star flowers of this vintage wave. The enthusiasm for seeds drives a revival of cut flowers for bouquets, direct from the garden to the vase! Statice, Helichrysum (Immortelle), Leucanthemum (Oxeye Daisies), and Silene, are already part of our collection of more than 1,500 varieties of flower seeds.
Évasions Nomades
The garden becomes itinerant, multicultural, adaptable, a mirror of a world in motion. 42% of recent landscape projects directly draw inspiration from distant cultures. They combine a dream of elsewhere with climate-consciousness, are nomadic in their evocations, resilient in their choices and economical in their use of water. Sales of hardy succulents have risen by 45% in Europe since 2023, a sign that these plants from elsewhere resonate with local concerns. Among the identified trends:
- Balinese Garden: tropical luxuriance, and sacred lotuses (85k posts #lotusgarden) inspired by the tropical sanctuaries of Southeast Asia.
- Antipodes Garden: euphorbias, crassulas, aloes or senecios pushed to the extremes evoke the landscapes of southern Africa.
- Chaparral Garden: Dasylirion longissimum, Echinocactus grusonii, Mexican blue palm, Opuntia cacanapa 'Ellisiana'... The specimens from semi-desert regions of California or Mexico sketch a graphic, solar and radically frugal garden.
- Sandy Garden: on 20 cm of pure sand, Gypsophila 'Rosea', Blue Fescue, Lomandra 'White Sands', Silver Santolina or Sage 'Caradonna' compose open scenes, without watering or fertilisers. Inspired by Peter Korn and climate-resilient gardens, this new generation dry garden blends lightness, robustness and modernity.
Jardin Refuge
In an age of hyperconnectivity, the garden becomes an emotional refuge, an open-air cocoon where we slow down, wrap ourselves in comfort and breathe.
- Japandi: a fusion of Japanese minimalism and Scandinavian softness, inspiring sober, botanical, meditative ambiences. Japanese Maple 'Bloodgood', Ophiopogon noir, Pittosporum tobira'Nana', Arisaema consanguineum, Clematis 'Pistachio' flourish in a contemplative and undemanding garden. (+160% of searches for “Japandi garden” in 3 years).
- Chill Soft: soft design, velvety palette, flexible grasses, Pennisetum 'Lumen Gold', Perovskia ‘Prime Time’, Panicum ‘Hot Rod’… The garden becomes fluid, sensory, enveloping.
- Boho Patio: bohemian terraces, bright colours and gypsy spirit. Giant sunflowers, Dahlias, Purslane, Red popcorn maize, and Black pomegranate settle in for a sunny, joyful garden, between lounging and impromptu festive moments.
Jardin Augmenté
The garden enters the era of assisted gardening: tutorials, apps, connected devices, AI… Wireless tools are becoming common, mini-greenhouses are taking root in cities, and social networks popularise the practices. Uninhibited, autonomous, the garden appeals to a new urban generation. 40% of urban households already have an intelligent device. Our podcast Branché au jardin has 18,000 listens, and our Plantfit app 80,000 users.
Couleurs 2026
Emotional hues, ranging from mineral freshness to dark romance and pastel dreams.
- Transformative Teal: between muted blue and aquatic green, this refined, mineral shade asserts itself as the colour of 2026. It evokes deep waters and is embodied in Eucalyptus 'Baby Blue', Agave americana, Senecio serpens 'Dwarf Blue', and Dasylirion glaucophyllum.
- Cloud Dancer: a misty, resting, almost silent white, Pantone’s colour of the year. Chromatic antidotes to saturation, Agapanthus 'Ever White', Hydrangea 'FlowerWOW', Iris 'Glacier' and Clematis 'Guernsey Flute' soothe the eye.
- Dark Academia: a dramatic romanticism with Victorian overtones. Purple blooms, garnets, misty purples and wine-toned foliage craft a dark and sophisticated mood. Dianthus 'Sooty', Rosa 'Charles de Mills', Poppy 'Lauren’s Grape' and Lupin 'Masterpiece' embody this poetic gloom.
- Unicorn: a pastel iridescent breath, at the edge of the digital dream. Apricot sorbet, frosted lavender, pale blue or vanilla yellow compose a dreamy and playfully quirky garden populated with Sweet William Lychnis 'Classic Apricot', Delphinium 'Misty Lavender', and Rosa 'Koko Loko'.
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