SHERIDAN, WYOMING – June 13, 2025 – spoga+gafa 2025, the world’s leading garden and BBQ trade fair, has announced "Design Gardens" as its central theme, highlighting the transformative role of design across all segments of outdoor living and garden product innovation.
This strategic focus underscores the fair’s commitment to showcasing how intelligent design influences both aesthetics and functionality in the garden industry—from smart tools to stylish furnishings—and reflects broader lifestyle and sustainability trends.
A Dual Focus: Products and Planning
By choosing “Design Gardens” as its 2025 theme, spoga+gafa is emphasizing a dual interpretation: the thoughtful planning of entire outdoor spaces and the sophisticated design of individual products. Whether it’s the layout of a balcony, the choice of irrigation systems, or the integration of ergonomic garden tools, every decision stems from intentional design.
“Design Gardens is the overall landscaping of the outdoor area as well as the selection of the appropriate plants, soils and substrates. It includes furnishing the terrace and balcony as well as selecting the right garden tool, the appropriate lighting technology or the BBQ.”
This dual perspective aims to connect product manufacturers, garden planners, and outdoor lifestyle brands with a growing audience of design-savvy consumers and professionals.
Design Across All Segments
The theme permeates every category within the trade fair—plant containers, sun loungers, grills, lawn mowers, and beyond—uniting them under the umbrella of practical, forward-thinking design.
“Design unites future-looking ideas or technologies with practical design. For instance, it can lend products an attractive form, optimise the usage, increase the comfort or contribute towards saving resources.”
This industry-wide relevance ensures that exhibitors and attendees across all sectors—retail, landscape architecture, DIY, and outdoor leisure—can align with a theme that emphasizes user-centered innovation and product value.
Empowering the End User as Designer
spoga+gafa 2025 also recognizes the shift toward personal empowerment in outdoor design. Modern consumers are not only buyers—they are curators of their own green spaces.
“People who have their own outdoor area, become designers themselves: Sowing flowers, shaping flowerbeds, planting shrubs and trees or furnishing the terrace and outdoor cooking area – designing a garden or furnishing a balcony entails many design decisions.”
This movement toward personalization ties into macro-trends like individual expression, wellness, and the increasing importance of outdoor space in everyday life.
Responding to Global Trends
The evolving concept of garden design also mirrors key social and environmental developments. From climate change resilience to cultural aesthetics and sustainable consumption, design plays a role in shaping responsible, modern garden environments.
“It can promote positive trends like the self-provision with herbs and vegetables or growing insect-friendly plants. It encourages people to do DIY or build things themselves or to cook outdoors.”
By addressing issues like biodiversity, self-sufficiency, and ecological impact, “Design Gardens” is positioned at the intersection of innovation and responsibility.
A Platform for Innovation and Inspiration
spoga+gafa 2025 will run from June 24 to 26 at the Cologne exhibition grounds, offering a comprehensive platform for the latest in outdoor design—from entry-level products to premium solutions. The show will spotlight:
- Functionality and efficiency
- Comfort and user experience
- Aesthetics and timelessness
- Smart technologies
- Sustainability and resource awareness
“Under the new key theme, topics such as functionality and efficiency, comfort, aesthetics and quality, innovation and smart technologies as well as responsibility towards users and the environment will be addressed.”
With its “Design Gardens” concept, spoga+gafa is setting the stage for the next evolution of the garden industry—blending design thinking with environmental and lifestyle awareness to inspire the outdoor spaces of tomorrow.
Learn more at www.spogagafa.com