Also this year I’m interested in finding out in what way the Pantone Color of the Year 2024 is defined by the RHS, but also how it is being portrayed by various retailers and in which way it will find its implementation in our flower beds and the interiors.
“PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It’s a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul.“
(Source: https://www.pantone.com/uk/en/color-of-the-year/2024)
PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz creates according to the RHS a warm emotion like joy, courage, contentment, love, compassion, calm and admiration.
The RHS keeper of the herbarium, Yvette Harvey Harvey said: “We’ve identified Peach Fuzz on the RHS Color Chart , where it is called ’26D – Light Yellowish Pink’. We searched our online database of 90.000 plants to identify those listed as 26D.”
Doing this they have discovered that only 14 flower cultivars completely match the shade for example Rosa ‘Lady Hamilton’, Kniphofia ‘Toffee Nosed’, Lillium rosthornii, Potentilla fruticosa, ‘Daydawn’, Rebutia ‘Apricot Ice’, Verbascum ‘Tropic Sun’, Dahlia ‘Labyrinth’, Chrysanthemum ‘Daphne Davis’. No pictures of these yet.
(Source: RHS)
As a enthusiastic gardener & lover of vivid color combinations I like to play with a slightly wider range of hues of yellow/apricot/orange deviating from the strong base color yellow of 26D (unfortunately not available to purchase at the moment). These other hues convey warm emotions and invite you to connect with your inner self and others in a gentle and understanding way. The color range nourishes the mind, body and soul. To concentrate too much on the strong yellow tint appears to make it almost too rigid in my opinion.
If you like to use the Peach Fuzz Color and its various hues in your garden, then you could try the following plants to include in your flowerbeds. You will have a chance to take some of the flowers into your own house to create compositions with ornamental grasses for example in vases. Peachy hues of terracotta pots and vases are not included here but also a good option.
My Peach Fuzz Color Inspirations / Suggestions:
Rosa 'For Your Eyes Only'
- Shrub rose.
- Very romantic.
- Very good performer which flowers almost continuously during the summer months.
- Received the Rose of the year 2015 Award by the RHS (see picture above).
- Good Ground cover.
Paeonia 'Leaping Salmon'
- Changes from pink to soft orange/peachy colour.
- Flowers are long lasting.
- This variety is a very good performer. in flowerbeds and also containers.
- It is one of my ultimate favourites.
Rosa 'Happy Single Kiss' Photo by F.D. Richards on Flickr
- Compact dahlia.
- Suitable for containers
- Late flowering dahlia
- Combine with with asters, achilleas and sedums.
Geum ‘Mai Tai’: The flowers have a very gentle peachy color, growing very low. However it might need frost protection.
Foxglove ‘Sutton’s Apricot’: Best known foxglove which has peachy white tall spikes of bell-shaped flowers ‘Sutton’s Apricot’, attracting pollinators and adding vertical focus. But beware that all parts of the plant are toxic to cats/dogs/humans when ingested and can die!
Tulipa ‘Apricot Beauty’: These beautiful tulips exhibit shades ranging from pale pink to delicate peach. They blend beautifully with other pastel shades in the garden. Plus, they’re ideal for cutting and bringing indoors to enjoy the ‘Peach Fuzz’ look.