Focus on color: Grow these peach-colored flowers to celebrate the Pantone color of the year
The best flowers to add this soft and inviting color to your garden
Colorful flower gardens can brighten your day, support your local wildlife, and even help you celebrate a new year. Pantone, the company best known for the Pantone Matching System that helps people find and create specific colors of paint, has been choosing a color of the year every year since 1999. This year’s color isn’t just great for interior decorating -- it’s also a great choice for your garden! Here’s what you need to know about bringing the color of the year to your home and garden with peach flowers.
What is the 2024 Pantone color of the year?
The 2024 Pantone color of the year is Peach Fuzz. It is a warm shade of pink that, as the name implies, is reminiscent of peaches. This inviting pink is soft, sweet, and luckily, is the color of many flowers. While you can celebrate this color in your garden by planting peach trees, there are also faster growing plants you can choose. If you’re curious about the color of the year, consider reading all about it on Pantone’s website, where you can learn all about the selection process and explore previous colors of the year.
Peach-colored flowers for your garden
Watermelons are sweet, juicy, and perfect for cooling off on a hot summer day. If you want to grow them in your garden, then you’ll need a lot of space. With their sprawling vines and large fruits, watermelon plants take up a lot of room, even if you grow them on a trellis.
You might even think they don’t leave any room for other plants, but that isn’t the case. There are still plenty of watermelon companion plants you can grow with your sweet summer fruit. Whether you’d like to pair your watermelons with other fruits and veggies, herbs, or even flowers, here are our favorite watermelon companion plants -- and the ones you should avoid.
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What is a chaos garden, and why should you start one this spring?
Is this approach to gardening for you?
One of TikTok's latest gardening trends, chaos gardening is exactly what it sounds like: It's a low-maintenance approach to gardening that requires little planning and upkeep. With chaos gardening, you'll be using leftover seeds, picking out easy-going native plants, and being OK with some plants simply not working out. Think of it as survival of the fittest — whatever sticks will stick. There's no need to excessively plan out your spacing and consistently prune. Still, there's a method to the madness, since you want to keep your garden resilient against pests and diseases. If you're starting your very own chaos garden, here's what you need to know.
