Favorite Peach Fuzz Colored Plants to Add to the Garden
Last month, Pantone picked Peach Fuzz as its 2024 Color of the Year. In case you’re looking to embrace this color in your landscape, here are my five favorite peachy-keen plants to consider adding to the garden this year. At left, the Geum ‘Apricot Pearl’, available at DutchGrown for $9.80 for 1 bare root. A larger (growing to three feet) alternative is the oldie but goody peony ‘Coral Charm’ that won the 1986 Gold Medal of the American Peony Society and sports frilly peachy bowl-shaped blooms. At right, the Peony ‘Coral Charm’ (photograph via TulipStore). Photograph of Grevillea ‘Peaches and Cream’ via Bloomables. 2. Grevillea ‘Peaches and Cream’ As if grevilleas weren’t already some of my favorite shrubs because they’re evergreen, drought-resistant, pollinator-friendly, and deer-resistant, then came along this sweetie. ‘Peaches and Cream’ has a low-maintenance mounding habit that is desirable and displays curiously curved flowers that age to shades of peachy hues. Photograph of Rosa ‘Peach Drift’ via Star Roses and Plants. If I’m going to plant a rose, it better be tough, disease-resistant, and long-blooming. ‘Peach Drift’ checks all those boxes, and now it’s on trend as well with its soft peachy-pink spring flowers that keep blooming through the end of summer. This new and improved abelia from Sunset comes at the right time for the gardener wanting to riff a bit on the Pantone color trend. Photograph of Abelia ‘Suntastic Peach‘ via Sunset Plant Collection. 5. Dahlia ‘Apricot Desire’ Dahlia ‘Apricot Desire’ is $26.29 for 2 bulbs at Eden Brothers. Plant this tuber in the spring in a sunny spot, and you’ll be rewarded from June to the first frost with delicate peachy blossoms.