Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Very Peri – Pantone color and plants
I mentioned a few weeks ago that Pantone picked their color of the year for 2022. ‘Very Peri’ as described by Pantone, “displays a spritely, joyous attitude and dynamic presence that encourages courageous creativity and imaginative expression”. I really do love that.
Moving on to Very Peri and plants. Incorporate some joy with an allium called ‘Globemaster’.
Hardy to zone 2, this flowering onion has silvery purple globe flowers sitting 3 feet up from ground level with green foliage about 12 inches. It flowers in late spring/early summer and is super easy.
Another shorter version that blooms later is called ‘Lavender Bubbles’. It blooms from zone 4 and warmer beginning in late Summer to early Fall.
Hoary Vervain is a native pollinator plant blooming periwinkle from June into September.
It’s genus name is Verbena and it grows from 1 to 3 ft. I have it in my butterfly garden.
Russian Sage is a natural for Very Peri color. I like the name of this cultivar ‘Blue Jean Baby’! It’s compact and lovely in full sun.
And finally a beauty in more shaded areas of your garden is a geranium called ‘Rozanne’.
This hardy geranium has masses of ‘very peri’ colored flowers with white eyes at the ends of the stems from late spring to mid summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. Its deeply cut lobed palmate leaves are forest green in color. As an added bonus, the foliage turns a gorgeous red in the fall.
