Honeysuckle is the official Pantone color of the year. You will see this color everywhere for the next 12 months... in ads, fashion, housewares, etc. 
So how does Pantone choose the 'Color of the Year'?Do they drink several glasses of wine and look swooningly at lush Pantone color swatches and say, 'That's it - that's the color!"....?
Or maybe they say, "We have all this pink colored inventory that we can't sell because no one wants that color...why don't we make it 'The Color of the Year'?"
But I think I know the real answer - some discerning landscape designer planted a Goldflame Honeysuckle (Lonicera heckrotti 'Goldflame') on a trellis for someone in Corporate....and the 'dye was cast'. :)
They saw the magnificent 'Goldflame' Honeysuckle and wanted to share it with the world. It is a fantastic vining plant that I use often on trellises.
image courtesy of Monrovia
Of course there are other plants that sport this color (or close to it). Here are a few I have found:
Magnolia Purple Breeze - courtesy of Emotive Landscapes
Flower Carpet Rose - Pink Supreme
Be ready for a run on 'Goldflame' Honeysuckle this year.....
Honeysuckle - The Pantone 2011 Color of the Year - Goldflame, anyone?
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