The colour giant Pantone, in their annual trend forecast that determines which colour is set to appear all over our homes and gardens in the following year, has announced ‘Peach Fuzz’ as the 2024 Colour of the Year.
At the heart of Pantone’s choice for the 2024 Colour of the Year is its reading of our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It’s a velvety, gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul.
Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director, Pantone Color Institute™, said, “In seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a colour radiant with warmth and modern elegance. A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless.”
In the Garden
So how do you stay bang on trend for 2024, and bring Peach Fuzz into your garden this year? Here are our suggestions to get you thinking about this warm, soft shade – you’ll find more inside the February 2024 issue of Scotland Grows magazine.
Foxglove ‘Sutton’s Apricot’
A cottage garden staple with tall, biennial, flowering spikes, loved by pollinators, this delicate peach hued digitalis will add impact to shady corners. It is a prolific self-seeder, giving you a profusion of plants for free.
Tulip ‘Apricot Beauty’
This pastel-coloured, triumph tulip is long flowering with strong stems, making it suitable for planting in exposed areas. Its vintage colouring make it a great tulip for cutting.
Antirrhinum ‘Twinny Peach’
Antirrhinum, known commonly as snapdragon, is another staple cottage garden plant with delicately frilled petals, on a dwarf, bushy plant, perfect for growing in containers or at the front of a sunny border.
Verbascum ‘Helen Johnson’
A drought-tolerant perennial with soft flowers held on tall, furry spikes, which are attractive to wildlife.
The flowers of Verbascum ‘Helen Johnson’ are peach as they open, nestling to a rusty orange. Ideal for growing in a sunny border, plants will readily self-seed readily.
Astilbe x rosea ‘Peach Blossom’
A clump forming, semi-dwarf, hardy perennial with plumes of pale peach-pink flower panicles atop mounds of delicate fern-like foliage.
Perfect for shadier and moist areas in the garden to add a lightness of touch.
Rose ‘The Lark Ascending’
This graceful, semi-double flowered, David Austin rose, is named after the much-loved piece of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Forming a beautiful open-cup shape, loosely filled with about twenty petals, arranged around a cluster of golden stamens, this contemporary peach rose is a repeat flowering variety reaching heights of 150cm (5ft).
