All things Green - Colour of the year 2017

It's official.  Green is the colour of the year 2017.

The Hotel Monopol at Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, oozes with old world charm.
Its inner courtyard off the reception is an oasis of calming greenery, filled with palm trees, hanging green ferns, evergreens, and tropical creepers that climb up to the glass roof  and 
surrounded on all sides by hand-carved wooden verandahs.  
Photo © Lucia Carpio, December 2016.

Colour institute Pantone has named green as the colour of the year 2017.  To be exact, the word they have used is Greenery, a colour inspired by nature, hope and fresh beginnings and described by Pantone as a "tangy yellow-green" often seen in foliage.

Considering the state of world affairs today, one also hopes the colour brings a sense of optimism.
Known on Pantone's colour chart as 15-0343 Greenery, which has been described as "a tangy yellow-green that speaks to our need to explore, experiment, and reinvent, the colour authority Pantone also says the colour is "illustrative of flourishing foliage; the fertile attributes of Greenery signals one to take a deep breath, oxygenate, and reinvigorate."

In an interview with the New York Times, executive director of the Pantone Leatrice Eiseman said it is a colour of hopefulness and of our connection to nature; a choice made in response to a "stressful and tense world".