Color of the Year: “Peach Fuzz” Steps into the Spotlight for 2024 ~ My Peachy Plant Suggestions for Home & Garden

The trend setters at Pantone announced its 2024 Color of the Year: Peach Fuzz as a “velvety gentle peach whose all-embracing spirit enriches heart, mind, and body.”

If there ever was a year for a nurturing, emotional tone, next year is shaping up to be one that will welcome this lovely, calming pastel.

It is a peaceful ambassador color that plays well with others too. 

Here’s some pretty plant suggestions for your Home and Garden.

As a style maven, you can look forward to using Peach Fuzz in the Home or in the garden as an accent; or pairing this cozy shade with cool blue aqua and rich eggplant, navy.  

I admit it reminds me of the 80’s ~ I used this color rather liberally in our new home design after we married. It was the carpet color in our guest room, for starters.  I paired it with a pistachio green striped comforter.  And a forest green wicker table set.

It was indeed a welcoming ambience.

I also remember it as a rather prominent color in the ballroom of the Waldorf~Astoria. I know this because I produced and hosted one of my first really big client press conferences there in the Starlight room ~ one of my favorite Gotham hotels.  (Do you know the story of the retractable skylights opening to the starry night?)

Pantone says this color is “Poetic and romantic, a clean peach tone with a vintage vibe, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz reflects the past yet has been refashioned with a contemporary ambiance.” 

Enough Nostalgia ~ Back to Peach Fuzz for 2024.

I do like the cool color.  The only thing I object to is that reference to “Fuzz.”  To my way of looking at that word, Fuzz is a blur or - worse: fine soft hairs or tight, curly, messy hairs or facial hair.  I don’t care for that image. 😏

So, I’m going with the moniker, Peach Bellini. 

The Peach Bellini makes me think of celebrations.  Impactful, modern.

For its part, Pantone cites its color as being centered in the human experience of enriching and nurturing the mind, body, and soul, it is also a quietly sophisticated and contemporary peach with depth whose gentle lightness is understated but impactful, bringing beauty to the digital world.”  

Here is a list of Plants with Peach Blooms that can imbue your home and garden with the comfort and peace of the Color the Year, 2024 ~ no matter what you call it. 

Dahlia  

You cannot go wrong with dahlia. They come in a multitude of shapes and styles, one just prettier than the next.  

This one is called “Peach Fuzz.” So you’d be so “on trend” for 2024!

We grow Peaches and Cream

Just go crazy and order what your heart pulls you to in the catalog.  Try the Michigan Bulb Company or John Scheepers.  I have used them over my career in horticulture and they both offer excellent quality bulbs and customer service.

Daylily 

The Siloam cultivars offer delicate, small flowers that are ideal for cutting for vases and centerpieces. 

You can pair these with purple sage, lavender, or nepeta for easy care color in the garden. 

Rose

America’s favorite flower, the rose, is available in many shades of peach.

Peach Drift is a nice option because it’s a ground cover.  

    It pairs well with a low-growing blue conifer:

Abutilon

‘Bartley Schwarz’ ‘Fools Gold’ or other varieties of this long-blooming, drought-tolerant flowering maple perennial.

Agastache

Another great blooming peach perennial is the ‘Peachie Keen‘ or ‘Queen Nectarine’ Agastache.  I grow the purple agastache ~ it’s so easy care, drought-tolerant, and great for pollinators.  I use the leaves to make a delicious tea. 

Echinacea 

‘Big Kahuna 

Or 

‘Rainbow Marcella’ 

These native plants are easy to grow. Echinacea are delightful additions to the garden beds and make wonderful cut flowers for your tables as well.  

Four O’Clocks

These sweet annuals open their blooms at, well, Four O’Clock! Just in time for cocktails. The ‘Orange Crush’ and ‘Peach Sunset’ varieties also have a fragrance.  Putting more happy into your Happy Hour! 

Hibiscus 

The tropical hibiscus is available in so many shades of peach.  It’s a glorious, happy bloom that I promise, you can’t take your eyes off of.  I love seeing them in our water garden.  Every day… 

Delosperma 

Is a ground cover Ice Plant succulent.  ‘Fire Spinner’ sports a bit of contrast color right within its bloom showing off its peach with lavender and red petals… Go for the show!

And I can’t resist sharing these peachy items for your home’s interior design.

Decorate your table top with some Jingle Shells from

Kinka

sold in a “clear acrylic container. Remove the shells from the container for home crafts. Jingle Shells collected locally from Long Island, NY.”

I have four of these charming peach shell containers gracing a coffee table in our garden room.

They go so perfectly with that room’s wall colors and silk dupioni drapes that look like ball gowns, and the antique, storied mirror hung with silk, peach flower lights. I found the flower lights on Etsy from an artist in the UK:  

Flower with Me

To paraphrase Ol’ Blue Eyes ~ Peach is the happiest color. (He said “orange” but we can all use more happy, so a bit of poetic license is in order, don’t you think?)

I look forward to seeing how you use Peach Fuzz aka Peach Bellini in your home designs. I hope this small sampling of suggestions inspires you.

The color peach is so glamorous.