The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has compiled a list of plants to correspond with Pantone Colour Institute’s Colour of the Year 2024.
‘Peach Fuzz’ was chosen by Pantone for its Colour of the Year, which the Institute believes “resonates with compassion” and “offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless.”
The colour categorised by Pantone as 13-1023 was found to be a match for colour 26D in the RHS Colour Chart – the tool for documenting plant colour worldwide.
Curators of the RHS Herbarium have matched Pantone Peach Fuzz to a list of plants which can be grown in a range of spaces to assist gardeners planning to incorporate the signature colour.
10. Verbascum ‘Tropical Sun’
A yellow flushed perennial capable of reaching up to 1.5m, flushed with peach-orange tones and a red eye.
9. Rosa JOIE DE VIVRE (‘Korflociol’)
Flowering repeatedly through the summer and autumn months, reaching no higher than 60cm in height. This peachy pink and cream small shrub needs a moist but well-drained position in full sun.
8. Rhododendron ‘Hanger Flame’
A lightly scented variant of the shrub species, with orange flowers that feature a more golden tint, flowering in May and June.
7. Rebutia ‘Apricot Ice’
Great as a houseplant for beginners, this hybrid rebutia cactus is easy to grow and has soft barrel-shaped stems and star-shaped orange blooms which fade to apricot pink.
6. Potentilla fruticosa ‘Daydawn’
A spreading, bushy shrub that can grow to 80cm tall, with pale yellow flowered tinged yellow and pink, in bloom from early summer to early autumn.
5 . Narcissus ‘Waldorf Astoria’
Flowering in mid spring with three rows of broad, white petals. A double daffodil with pinky-orange corona segments. Prefers full sun or partial shade in a moist but well-drained position.
4. Lilium rosthornii
A Chinese lilly with golden-range blooms, easily and readily grown in light or part-shade in a humus-rich soil.
3. Kniphofia ‘Toffee Nosed’
These hardy perennials have slender leaves and ivory flowers and are ideal for sunny banks and borders.
2. Dahlia ‘Labyrinth’
A tuberous-rooted perennial with dark green foliage with peachy petals flowering up to 20cm across, from mid-summer to the first frost.
1. Chrysanthemum ‘Salmon Enbee Wedding’
This half-hardy perennial grows to 1m in height, with sprays of single flowers whose rays are yellowish-pink tinged with light coral pink.