Colour of the Year – Peach Fuzz Every year Pantone creates a ‘Colour of the Year’ and this year it’s “Peach Fuzz”. This shade has been chosen as it captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It’s a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul. This can be easily incorporated into our flower borders and pots, and here’s my suggestions on plants to use and also what to coordinate with them. Peach-coloured flowers are a great way to add a pop of colour to your garden. They are soft, warm, and inviting, and can create a beautiful contrast against purple foliage. Here are three of the best peach-coloured flowering plants that are available here in the UK: Salvia ‘Peach Parfait’ Salvias are one of my favourite perennials to include in any border due to the variety of colours available and they are just so reliable (in my opinion!) as they’re semi-evergreen, bushy and are loved by pollinators. This particular variety has a gorgeous purple stem, grows to around 90cm tall, and will continually flower from June until first frosts. Ideal for any sunny border or container. Using the colour of the purple stem, it will go well with a purple leaved plant such as the evergreen Pittosporum ‘Tom Thumb’ and a dark purple flowering Verbena (which is also long flowering). Plant them individually in containers of different sizes and group them together to make a colourful display on your patio. The Salvia is available from Hayloft Plants- Salvia Peach Parfait Digitalis Dalmatian Peach Foxgloves are one of my favourite flowers, especially when they’re planted in swathes under a white-stemmed silver birch tree such as the Jacqmontii. Foxgloves come in many colours but this ‘Peach’ variety is semi-evergreen and biennial which means they bloom during their second year before setting seed. It grows to around 90cm tall. Rosa Dannahue With so many beautiful pastel roses to choose from, this new variety called Dannahue is an apricot beauty! Named after Danny Clarke, aka ‘The Black Gardener’. It’s a repeat flowering English Shrub rose which grows to around 110cm tall, so its gorgeous for a border or container. Obviously it’s scented and adored by bees! What’s not to love about this beauty? This would look gorgeous with Verbena bonariensis as it grows to around 1.5m tall and then underplant it with Geranium ‘Rozanne’ which flowers from June to October. All loved by pollinators and the sunshine! These are just a few of the many peach-coloured flowering plants that are available in the UK. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced gardener, there’s a peach-coloured plant out there that’s perfect for you.
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