diff --git a/doc/src/changelog.md b/doc/src/changelog.md
index 4caf39a..77b081a 100644
--- a/doc/src/changelog.md
+++ b/doc/src/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## v0.8.1 (beta0)
+
+**Development**:
+
+- Use `strum` to implement `FromStr` for `enum ColorMode`.
+
 ## v0.8.0
 
 **Features**:
diff --git a/src/cli.rs b/src/cli.rs
index b866387..bb8975f 100644
--- a/src/cli.rs
+++ b/src/cli.rs
@@ -8,14 +8,15 @@ use super::path;
 #[command(name = "garden")]
 #[command(author, version, about, long_about = None)]
 pub struct MainOptions {
-    /// Set the color mode
+    /// Use ANSI colors [auto, true, false, on, off, always, never, 1, 0]
     #[arg(
         long,
         require_equals = true,
         num_args = 0..=1,
         default_value_t = model::ColorMode::Auto,
-        default_missing_value = "on",
-        value_enum,
+        default_missing_value = "true",
+        value_name = "WHEN",
+        value_parser = model::ColorMode::parse_from_str,
     )]
     color: model::ColorMode,
 
diff --git a/src/model.rs b/src/model.rs
index 8237194..5a42516 100644
--- a/src/model.rs
+++ b/src/model.rs
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ use super::eval;
 use super::path;
 use super::syntax;
 
-use clap::ValueEnum;
 use indexmap::{IndexMap, IndexSet};
 use indextree::{Arena, NodeId};
 use std::cell::RefCell;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::str::FromStr;
+use strum::VariantNames;
+use strum_macros;
 use which::which;
 
 /// TreeName keys into config.trees
@@ -1048,18 +1050,49 @@ impl TreeQuery {
     }
 }
 
-#[derive(ValueEnum, Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(
+    Clone,
+    Debug,
+    Default,
+    PartialEq,
+    Eq,
+    strum_macros::EnumString,
+    strum_macros::Display,
+    strum_macros::EnumVariantNames,
+)]
+#[strum(ascii_case_insensitive, serialize_all = "kebab-case")]
 pub enum ColorMode {
     /// Enable color when a tty is detected
     #[default]
     Auto,
-    /// Disable color
-    Off,
     /// Enable color
+    #[strum(
+        serialize = "1",
+        serialize = "on",
+        serialize = "true",
+        serialize = "always",
+        serialize = "y",
+        serialize = "yes"
+    )]
     On,
+    /// Disable color
+    #[strum(
+        serialize = "0",
+        serialize = "off",
+        serialize = "false",
+        serialize = "never",
+        serialize = "n",
+        serialize = "no"
+    )]
+    Off,
 }
 
 impl ColorMode {
+    /// Parse a color mode from a string using strum's from_str().
+    pub fn parse_from_str(string: &str) -> Result<ColorMode, String> {
+        ColorMode::from_str(string).map_err(|_| format!("choices are {:?}", Self::VARIANTS))
+    }
+
     pub fn is_enabled(&self) -> bool {
         match self {
             ColorMode::Auto => atty::is(atty::Stream::Stdout),
@@ -1068,10 +1101,6 @@ impl ColorMode {
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn names() -> &'static str {
-        "auto, true, false, 1, 0, [y]es, [n]o, on, off, always, never"
-    }
-
     pub fn update(&mut self) {
         if *self == ColorMode::Auto {
             // Speedup future calls to is_enabled() by performing the "auto"
@@ -1089,30 +1118,6 @@ impl ColorMode {
     }
 }
 
-impl std::str::FromStr for ColorMode {
-    type Err = (); // For the FromStr trait
-
-    fn from_str(src: &str) -> Result<ColorMode, ()> {
-        match src.to_lowercase().as_ref() {
-            "auto" => Ok(ColorMode::Auto),
-            "-1" => Ok(ColorMode::Auto),
-            "0" => Ok(ColorMode::Off),
-            "1" => Ok(ColorMode::On),
-            "false" => Ok(ColorMode::Off),
-            "true" => Ok(ColorMode::On),
-            "never" => Ok(ColorMode::Off),
-            "always" => Ok(ColorMode::Off),
-            "off" => Ok(ColorMode::Off),
-            "on" => Ok(ColorMode::On),
-            "n" => Ok(ColorMode::Off),
-            "y" => Ok(ColorMode::On),
-            "no" => Ok(ColorMode::Off),
-            "yes" => Ok(ColorMode::On),
-            _ => Err(()),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 // Color is an alias for yansi::Paint.
 pub type Color<T> = yansi::Paint<T>;