A trend that ranks right up top with kitchen gardens is terrariums. Terrariums and kitchen gardens were neck and neck when I searched Google Insight - the same Google tool that Kairos Futures used.
And think about it, terrariums make all kinds of gardeners happy: the botanical lover, the urban dweller and the cubicle farmer. And they cross over into the interior design community. Anybody, anywhere can grow a terrarium.
Way ahead of lower ranking container gardening and serenity gardens are succulents. How could the trend spotters miss ever-popular echeverias?
Succulents have broken their desert-rat ranks and hit the big time. Even Martha Stewart collects them in her frigid Eastern climate. Succulents are infinitely interesting, easy to grow and beginners and hard-core gardeners alike can't collect enough of them.
Kairos missed the seed-starting trend. According to Google, seed starting, seeds, growing from seeds or anything seed ranks well ahead of almost all other garden trends except kitchen gardening.
In fact, growing plants from seeds has hit an all-time high. Burpee expects its seed sales to jump 25 percent this year and Harris Seed said its sales have jumped 80 percent.
Last but not least, we can't overlook hydroponics. You know, growing "plants" indoors under lights, without soil? It's right up top of garden-related searches after kitchen gardens.
Marijuana isn't the only plant you can grow using the hydroponic method. Hydroponics are popular in the cut-flower trade and tomato growers are getting bumper crops this way.
Yeah, but whatever you do Kairos Futures, don't ask me. I'm old school. But what Kairos Futures missed was if they had talked to a few "experts," the experts could have told them what trends to look at in the first place.
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