In 2025, the edible garden remains a trend that inspires gardeners to combine sustainability and aesthetics. This garden style offers an opportunity to transform your outdoor space into a beautiful place where you can not only relax, but also enjoy your homegrown vegetables, fruits and herbs. This is where beautiful, wooden garden furniture and a practical and beautiful garden come together.
Earlier we wrote a blog about the new garden trends with wooden garden furniture of 2025. Now we highlight one of these garden trends a bit more for you. When you think of a vegetable garden, you may not immediately think of a beautiful garden, or a garden where you can relax in, but did you know that you can combine all those things perfectly with each other? A nice set of wooden garden furniture, beautiful ornamental plants and gorgeous, delicious edible plants can all be placed in the same garden.
What is the edible garden?
The edible garden combines functionality and beauty. The idea is that ornamental and edible plants combine to form a beautiful environment. For example, you can add fruit bushes, edible flowers and herbs to your borders. Also consider beautiful vegetables, such as rainbow chard, palm cabbage, broad beans and carrots. This makes your garden visually appealing AND it fits in with sustainable living.
Of course, you also want to be able to enjoy your garden. Furniture made of durable materials, such as wooden garden furniture, therefore plays a central role in this trend. They provide a warm and natural look. Choose wooden garden furniture made from untreated wood, which is a lot more durable and better for the environment!
What plants do you use?
There are a whole bunch of different plants that you can put in an edible garden. These plants have a high ornamental value, but you can also incorporate them perfectly into a whole host of dishes.
- Fruit: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or even trees, such as apple trees and cherry trees.
- Herbs: rosemary, thyme, mint, oregano, lavender or sage look great in any border.
- Vegetables: chard has bright colors, palm cabbage is a beautiful tall biennial, and pumpkin is a beautiful annual ground cover.
- Flowers: violets, marigold, chamomile, verbena, chives, nasturtium.
Setting up your edible garden
Choose a spacious layout with well-stocked borders and natural wooden garden furniture. Combine cushions and accessories in earthy tones such as brown with vibrant, fresh colors of different edible plants, such as yellow, orange and pink. Put your garden furniture in a sunny location and, if necessary, place an umbrella next to it so you can make the most of the weather. Also, choose a slightly larger garden set, so that you can enjoy the garden with more people and on summer evenings you can also enjoy eating in the garden.
Optionally, you can vary a bit in height by also placing some raised planters made of wood or braided willow in your garden. You could also use these containers specifically for growing crops, thus also increasing the edibility of your garden.