From the Front Lines: What Front Line Sales are Telling Us About the 2025 Garden Consumer

When the world feels uncertain, Americans get planting. That’s the core message of our Garden Pulse: Spring 2025 Analysis, which confirms what retailers have been sensing: the beet goes on. 

While other industries report slowing traffic and declining sales, gardening is holding strong—and growing—despite cold weather, consumer caution, and tariff-fueled economic anxiety. Even with poor early spring weather, garden center sales in 2025 are only 3.9% behind 2024 and still far ahead of the same period in 2020.