New Jersey Landscaping Trends in 2025
Tips, Tricks, and Landscaping Trends in 2025
If you’re looking for the top landscaping trends in New Jersey this year, you’re not alone. We’re well into spring-cleanup season, so it only makes sense to start planning your lawn care and garden. New Jersey’s landscaping scene is starting to embrace sustainable designs, outdoor living spaces, and biodiversity. From second living rooms outdoors to planting pollinator-friendly plants and flowers, New Jersey’s landscaping trends are evolving towards sustainability. These are three of the top landscaping trends in New Jersey in 2025.
Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Designs
More and more home and business owners are beginning to prioritize sustainablility and environmental-consciousness for their landscaping and lawn care through New Jersey. Sustainability doesn’t just mean using recycled materials or garbage to build a garden bed, or mulching with rubber tires. Sure, those things exist and can be great, but there are other ways of achieving eco-friendly landscaping and lawn care. By incorporating drought-tolerant plants and adding in hardscaping elements like gravel or stone borders, you’re able to reduce the amount of water usage and waste— and lower your maintenance costs. That’s right, you can help the environment AND save money.
Earth and Grind sustainable landscaping trick of the day: replacing your grass with clover requires little to no water and will stay green year round. You’ll have a nice lawn and save some money, too.
Outdoor Living Spaces
I get it, Jersey isn’t exactly Southern California when it comes to year-round weather. Still, more and more homeowners are creating outdoor living spaces that serve as a sort of “second living room.” These functional hardscape designs include fire pits, outdoor kitchens, or enclosed patios. During the winter, adding a heater in these areas still allows you to sit outside while enjoying your yard. In the summertime, these enclosed spaces can have a portable A/C to keep you cool during the summer heat.
Many people also are building out their patio spaces with pavers and adding fire pits or small chimneys as a gathering place year-round. During the summer, adding a grill for BBQs can make your outdoor space a focal point for parties, small gatherings, or relaxing nights outside under the stars.
Earth and Grind’s outdoor living space tip of the day: if you use natural materials to design your space and pair it with adjustable lighting, you can create a cozy, natural environment outdoors that you can control all year.
Biodiversity
Last on our list but not in our hearts is the growing trend of adding biodiverse and pollinator-friendly plants to gardens and lawns. I know, that sounds great— but what does it mean?
A bee lands on a pollinator-friendly flower in a bio-diverse garden in Montville, New Jersey
Pollinator-friendly plants simply means that more and more New Jersey residents and businesses are choosing specific plants and flowers that promote the health and longevity of bees. It’s estimated that New Jersey alone is home to over 350 different species of bees. As more and more bees are becoming extinct due to excess pesticides and climate change, it’s important to provide a safe habitat for them wherever possible. What better place than your lawn or garden?
Along with pollinator-friendly plants, residents and businesses are adding native wildflowers and plants such as purple coneflower and butterfly weed. Butterfly weed does exactly what it sounds like it would do: it attracts monarch butterflies! Think about the last time you saw a butterfly in New Jersey, or the last time you were able to catch fireflies in an empty pickle jar. By building out a more natural garden, you’re opening space for different wildlife such as butterflies, chipmunks, and more.
Earth and Grind’s pro tip: Biodiversity adds value to your home. Aside from that, it helps the health of your yard by keeping more natural elements, which in turn helps your eco-system of bugs, bees, and other insects that help to keep your soil healthy.
Closing Thoughts:
Landscaping in 2025 is all about balance. You can have a beautiful lawn and garden without needing to sacrifice natural elements and sustainability. Whether you want to go full-on greenhouse and grow your own vegetables, or have a serene patio to sip coffee and BBQ on, we’ve got your covered.
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