For those who haven’t yet heard, the Pantone Color Institute have chosen Mimosa, a champagne-meets-orange-juice yellow, as it’s colour of the year for 2009. For those in the colour industry, it’s a big deal but will it have any affect on us gardeners and the choices we make when we plan our plantings this year.
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.
You may not be able to match it accurately but there are a ton of yellow flowers that could be making an appearance this year. For example;
- Daffodils
- Daylilies
- Tulips
- Calendulas
- Gerberas
- Grevillea
- Asiatic Lilies
- Zantedescia
- Jonquils
- Sunflowers
- Marigolds
- Acacia
- Frangipani
- Petunias
- Chrysanthemums
- Irises
- Daisies
- Roses
- Canola
- Ranunculi
- Black-Eyed Susan
- Hibiscus
- Poppies
So, will the 2009 Colour of the Year be making a splash in your garden?
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.