Many plants match Pantone's 2024 Color of the Year, Peach Fuzz

The 2024 Pantone Color of the Year is here.

Peach Fuzz (PANTONE 13-1023) evokes feelings of comfort, warmth and softness, according to Pantone, which chooses a color each year based on emerging trends across a range of industries, from entertainment to fashion to new technologies.

The Pantone Color Institute describes the hue as “a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body and soul,” which is perfect for gardeners hoping to find rejuvenation in their green spaces. “In seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a color radiant with warmth and modern elegance,” said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute.

Many plants — from annuals and perennials to shrubs and more — match the dreamy hue:

• Peach Blossom Astilbe - Providing abundant cloud-like peach blooms in early summer, this shade-tolerant variety brings on-trend color to dark spaces in the landscape. Perfect for borders and containers with an attractive upright mounding shape, reaching 24” high by 32” wide when mature.
  
• Grevillea ‘Peaches and Cream’ - A hummingbird and bee magnet, this drought-tolerant blooming shrub offers long, loose flower clusters in hues of peach and cream all year long against a backdrop of dense dark green foliage. Thrives in Zones 9-11.
  
• Golden Zest Shrub Rose - Blooming continuously from late spring to late fall, this medium-sized shrub features 4-inch, old-fashioned peach double blooms that make a lovely cut flower. This easy-to-grow rose makes an excellent choice for seasoned or beginner gardeners.
  
• Coral Charm Peony - A color breakthrough that earned a Gold Medal from the American Peony Society, Coral Charm offers peach-hued bowl-shaped blooms that make a lasting impact in the landscape or as a cut flower. This mounding shrub flourishes even at the end of its hardiness range in Zones 3-8. 
  
• Peach Drift from Star Roses and Plants - These groundcover roses are known for their peach blooms, which add a pop of color to outdoor spaces, with excellent disease resistance and the ability to bloom from spring to frost.
• Suntastic Peach Abelia - For lots of color and no fuss, this new water-wise abelia from Sunset Plant Collection offers superior heat tolerance and a convenient compact shape. Its bright peach foliage shines year-round, while sweet flowers create a buzz with pollinators. 
• Autumn Coral Encore Azalea - Autumn Coral Encore Azalea brings big blooms to little spaces, delivering peach-pink blooms throughout spring, summer and fall. Ideal for containers and compact spaces, it thrives in full to partial sun.

Here is a selection of peachy plants from Proven Winners:

• Flavorette Honey-Apricot Rosa (new)
• At Last Rosa
• ‘Firefly Peach Sky’ Achillea
• Pyromania ‘Hot and Cold’ Kniphofia
• Chroma Belize Ficus
• Rainbow Rhythm ‘Orange Smoothie’ Hemerocallis
• Rockapulco Tropical Shades Impatiens
• Superbena Peachy Keen Verbena
• Primo ‘Peachberry Ice’ Heuchera
• Heart to Heart Chinook Caladium
• Double Take Peach Chaenomeles
• Toucan Coral Canna
• Meant to Bee ‘Queen Nectarine’ Agastache
• Heart to Heart ‘Clowning Around’ Caladium
• Solenia Apricot Begonia
• Superbells Tropical Sunrise Calibrachoa
• Bright Lights Horizon Sunset Osteospermum
• Supertunia Honey Petunia

Here's another selection of Peach Fuzz-inspired plants from Ball Horticultural Company:

PanAmerican Seed:

• Celosia Celway Salmon 
• Limonium QIS Apricot
• Matthiola Aida Apricot
• Mattiola Column Stock Apricot

Ball FloraPlant:

• Calibrachoa Cha-Cha Diva Apricot
• Lantana Little Lucky Peach Glow
• Osteospermum Serenity Rose Magic
• Osteospermum Blushing Beauty

Darwin Perennials: 

• Coreopsis Crème Caramel
• Digitalis Arctic Fox Rose
• Heuchera Carnival Peach Parfait
• Sedum What a Doozie

Selecta One North America:

• Dahlia Venti Tequila Sunrise
• Dianthus SuperTrouper Orange
• Dianthus Vivacia Orange
• Poinsettia Christmas Beauty Cinnamon

Terra Nova Nurseries also put together a Pantone Color of the Year varieties list:

• Begonia COCOA ‘Enchanted Sunrise’
• Coleus FANCY FEATHERS ‘Copper’
• Coleus TERRA NOVA ‘Monkey Puzzle’
• Coleus TERRA NOVA ‘Peach Julep’
• Echinacea ‘Big Kahuna’
• Echinacea FRESCO ‘Apricot’
• Echinacea PRIMA ‘Ginger’
• Echinacea PRIMA ‘Saffron’
• Echinacea SUPREME ‘Cantaloupe’
• Geum PRETTICOATS ‘Peach’
• Heuchera ‘Georgia Peach’
• Heuchera 'Ginger Peach’
• Heuchera 'Paprika’
• Heuchera 'Peach Crisp’
• Heuchera 'Peach Flambé’
• Heuchera NORTHERN EXPOSURE ‘Amber’
• Heucherella ‘Buttered Rum’
• Sedum ‘Peach Pearls’
• Verbascum ‘Honey Dijon’