Garden Flower
5004-3B · #BFC7BB · LRV 55.7 — cool green tone, light — bounces daylight without going clinical.
- 1Stardew43
- 2Quietude48
- 3Garden Flower55.7
- 4Sea Salt63
- 5Wickham Gray68
What Color Is Garden Flower, Really?
Garden Flower reads as a cool green tone — light — bounces daylight without going clinical. The notes below cover how Valspar 5004-3B behaves in different light and the closest matches at competing US brands.
Best Rooms and Uses for Garden Flower
Garden Flower is an easy whole-room color for living spaces and bedrooms, and light enough to carry onto trim or a ceiling if you want a soft, seamless look. Grays like this read as a modern neutral and sit comfortably alongside both warm woods and cool metals.
How Lighting Changes Garden Flower
At LRV 55.7, Garden Flower is a light color that bounces daylight around a room without tipping into stark white. Its green undertone is the part to watch: it gets picked up by whatever sits next to it, so test it against your trim, floor and the room's main light before committing. It holds its undertone in most exposures, which is what makes light shades like this so forgiving room to room.
Most complaints about Garden Flower are a light mismatch. Upload a photo of your actual room and see it on your walls — then ask for the same wall in north light or evening lamps before you buy a single sample.
Need It From Another Brand?
Any paint counter can custom-tint Valspar 5004-3B directly. If you would rather stay in one brand's own deck, these are the closest stock matches, measured as ΔE2000. Under 2 is a difference you will not see on the wall.
| Brand | Closest color | ΔE | LRV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwin-Williams | Holly GlenSW 9678 · Sherwin-Williams | 3.0 | 57 | Color page → |
| Behr | RiverdaleN410-3 · Behr | 0.8 | 54 | Color page → |
| Benjamin Moore | Gray Wisp1570 · Benjamin Moore | 0.7 | 55 | Color page → |
| PPG / Glidden | Silent StormPPG1033-3 · PPG / Glidden | 2.0 | 55 | Color page → |
| Glidden | Distant Haze Green50GY 55/066 · Glidden | 0.9 | 55 | Color page → |
| Dutch Boy | Grayed Wolf426-3DB · Dutch Boy | 2.7 | 55 | Color page → |
Similar Valspar Colors
The nearest shades to Garden Flower within Valspar's own range, ranked by perceptual color distance — useful when you want the same look a touch lighter, darker, or warmer.
WCAG 2.1: AA is 4.5 : 1 for normal text, 3 : 1 for large text, AAA is 7 : 1.
Coordinated palette
Generated by hue-rotating #BFC7BB in HSL space. Pair Garden Flower with one accent and one neutral — the swatches below are starting points, not final picks.
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