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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Survivalist gardens and hot-weather fruits among 2024 trends, RHS predicts

Fresh grapes on the vine at the vineyard near Rye, UK, in September.
The RHS said recent years had been ‘ideal for certain fruits, grape vines being an outstanding example’. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Fruits that thrive in hot weather and can now be grown in the ever-hotter UK summers, and weeds such as cow parsley to decorate borders, are among the 2024 garden trends predicted by the Royal Horticultural Society.

Climate breakdown has influenced most of the trends predicted by the horticulture charity, which seeks insights from its more than 600,000 members to forecast which plants may be in fashion in the coming year. While its trends list used to be based on simply which blooms were in vogue, now it highlights the quirks of gardening in a changing climate amid collapsing biodiversity.

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