Improved property value
A garden that is loved, well maintained and well planted has been proven to return genuine value in terms of your home’s worth.
Research by estate agents in 2025 put that increased value at up to 20%. That’s the difference between selling a home with a blank, non-planted, non-maintained garden, and selling one with a landscaped, planted, and well-maintained garden
Gardens that tend to perform better at boosting property value are those that play to the well-loved English country garden style - large herbaceous borders, mature trees, neat hedges and pathways, and well-maintained lawns.
This look can be achieved in most gardens, even small ones. Planting drifts of perennial flowers, paying attention to the lawn - no matter how big - and keeping hedges, shrubs and trees well pruned and shaped will help get you on the road to a more valuable property.
Your garden is an extension of your living space, giving you extra square footage for at least six months of the year. Thinking of your garden as another ‘room’ to be maintained and managed will help your plans become reality.
In the same way you would upgrade a kitchen, buy a new sofa for your living room or install a new shower, investing in your garden is no different. With a little investment, it has huge potential to be realised in increasing the value of your home.
What do you need to create a valuable garden?
- Access to high quality equipment: A good mower with flexible height adjustment, an efficient hedge trimmer, sharp secateurs, a fertiliser spreader and liquid sprayer to enable even and consistent feeding and weeding.
- Plant Protection products to create that high quality mature garden look: Selective lawn herbicide to give you a clear weed-free lawn, pest controls to ensure foliage stays looking healthy, lawn and plant fertilisers for robust growth, and high-quality lawn seed tailored to your specific needs.
- Hard surface management to keep surfaces clean and weed free, and therefore to set-off your planting schemes: Algaecide to keep surfaces free from green deposits, and total herbicide to manage weeds on paths and driveways.
Improved quality of life
The other value that can be gained from an investment in your garden is less quantitative and more qualitative – it relates to your quality of life and well-being.
Although this is a ‘softer’ value, it is no less proven that a good garden can significantly improve your quality of life and well-being.
Being active in an aesthetically pleasing outdoor space improves well-being in several ways:
- Improved cognitive function: research has shown that gardening preserves brain function which helps you live longer.
- Improved physical health: multiple studies have shown how regular gardening leads to lower risk of cardiac arrest, improved bone density, improved flexibility, greater dexterity, better muscle mass, and increased mobility.
- Stress mitigation: Getting closer to nature, even in a tiny garden, has been shown to have enormous benefits in reducing levels of stress. The data also shows that we recover and heal more effectively when surrounded by nature. Being in an open green space gives the body time to relax and enjoy the sounds and smells of nature, directly triggering positive emotions.
Not only does gardening help support your physical and mental well-being, but it also gives you the opportunity to cultivate plants specific to your own preferences – in colour, smell and taste. Growing your own food is immensely rewarding, it’s great for the environment and can save a significant amount of money over a single growing season.
Research commissioned by the RHS showed that those of us who garden every day have higher well-being scores and lower stress levels than those who don’t garden at all.
So, there we have it, gardening is good for you, the planet, and your bank balance! Enjoy being in the garden in May and make a difference to your property’s value, your physical and mental well-being, and overall quality of life.
