On Gardening: Flambe the 2021 Pantone color choices of the year
Flambe Yellow creates a dazzling complementary color scheme with Artist Blue Ageratum. (Norman Winter/TNS)
Norman Winter, Tribune News Service
Pantone, the gurus of all things color has selected Ultimate Gray and Illuminating Yellow for the 2021 colors of the year. Some headlines call it “Pandemic Gray” but The Garden Guy loves it and you will see it opens the door to one of the toughest, persevering and award-winning plants of all time, Flambé Yellow chrysocephalum.
Flambé Yellow gives you both Pantone colors on one plant. Silver gray leaves and stems partnered with yellow button flowers that are produced nonstop all growing season. It has won 85 awards from Florida, Georgia to Texas, Delaware to Penn State and Cornell. There aren’t too many plants that can match this trophy case.