BBC1 Garden Rescue presenter Lee Burkhill (Picture: Lee Burkhill/SWNS)
A BBC1 Garden Rescue presenter has offered advice for UK households regarding their gardens this winter. Renowned garden designer Lee Burkhill, based in Liverpool, has revealed his top gardening trend for the end of 2025 and the upcoming 2026 season.
He encouraged gardening enthusiasts to "embrace the changing seasons: stop cutting everything back''. Lee, 42, said: "This trend is taking hold and rightly so - as it's far better for wildlife and gardeners' backs!
Lee said: "Self-seeders are your friends: allow plants like Verbena bonariensis, Eryngium, and Digitalis to self-seed through borders. This creates that spontaneous, wild look you can't achieve by rigid planting.
"I often use heavy self-seeders in my pl

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