Showing posts with label Spider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spider. Show all posts
Friday, December 29, 2023
Peach Fuzz: Pantone Color of the Year 2024
As has become an annual year-end tradition, the Pantone color of 2024 has finally been revealed. According to Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, “In seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a color radiant with warmth and modern elegance. A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless.”
PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, as it’s officially called, is described as a “velvety gentle peach tone, whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul.” A shade between pink and orange, this lovely hue with a vintage vibe brings belonging and inspires recalibration. It's warm and cozy, highlighting our desire for togetherness and the feeling of safety.
Sensitive but sweet and airy, Peach Fuzz is described as 'quietly sophisticated' with gentle depth and a 'contemporary ambiance' that evokes a new modernity. It's a color that creates a welcoming and comforting ambience in and around the home, whether appearing in home furnishings, floral designs or even in the garden.
Looking through our collection of floral creations, we have several designs where peach is the focal color.
Labels:
2024,
California Grown,
Color of the Year,
Compassion,
Contemporary Ambiance,
Grevillea Flowers. Mimetes,
Leucopsermum,
Modern Elegance,
Pantone,
Peach Fuzz,
Pincushion,
Protea,
Spider,
Vintage Vibe
Thursday, March 17, 2022
In the Field: Leucospermum Spider
As protea season winds down at the end of winter, Leucospermum ‘Pincushions’ take center stage in the fields offering up vibrant blooms that put on a quite a show from now into May.
While we all love the more traditional Leucospermum cordifoliums like Sunrise, Succession and Flame Giant, the Spiders have a few of their own advantages. They start blooming in winter which means more of us can enjoy them with a mix of other proteas. And since they produce flowers in masses on long, straight stems, you’re pretty much assured a blooming great show. Finally, it’s one 'Spider' that won't give anyone the creeps!
This lovely hybrid Leucopermum with its delicate hues is a mix of L. tottum and formosum, with the tottum parentage especially obvious. The salmon-pink to mauve flowers and with red tipped stamens are 5 to 6” wide. Spiders are a wonderful alternative if you’re color palette calls for blooms in shades of pink long after protea season has finished.
Spiders are being harvested right now and as you can see... they’re simply stunning in seasonal bouquets and arrangements.
Labels:
America Grown,
Arrangements,
Blooms,
Bouquets,
California Grown,
Color Palette,
Flowers,
Fynbos,
Garden,
In the Field,
Leucospermum,
Peach,
Pincushion,
Pink,
Protea,
Salmon,
Spider,
Texture,
Winter Color
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