Don't forget yellow cannas and yellow brugmansia, especially the Charles Grimaldi variety. Our yellow brugmania got hit by a freeze earlier this month and defoliated. So we're not getting any flowers on that plant. Right now, I am only seeing pink in our garden, in the form of camellias, as we are in the midst of winter in the USA. But I hope to see daffodils blooming in about a month.

Let's see, does yellow make a splash in my garden? Forsythia, daffs, hyacinths, tulips, yellow trillium, columbines, primulas, dandelions (I happen to love my dandelions), rudbeckias, Iceland poppies, ice plants, portulaca, lantana, echinacea, golden chain tree, coreopsis, yarrow, daylilies, true lillies, monkshood, roses, loosestrife, sedum...and that does't even count the yellow-foliaged plants!
It's a positive colour, and it might just be the perfect colour for this year of hope and change.
And I plan to buy a yellow magnolia this year, too.

Great opportunity to brag about my favorite color: yellow! Sunny, warm, bright and it exemplifies "happy!"
Shirley

I hadn't of Pantone's color of the year, but I can how it would be a good choice to try to engage optimism in an otherwise gloomy world. Of course, instead of mimosa yellow dishtowels, why don't we all plant some real mimosas? The yellow mimosas (actually acacias) are blooming here and it's hard not to feel a little perkier...

You MUST have yellow! :-)

Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of Pantone, said "Yellow is the color of change, of hopefulness, of warmth and of good cheer." And First Lady Michelle Obama must agree, wearing a yellow dress to her husband's inauguration earlier in the week.