Please help me find what a plant is called.

[ILoveShula]

Hello.
I'm trying to find out what a plant is called. I don't have a photo because I don't know what it is called.

It's a small flower, about 2p-size, a bit like a chrysanthemum (pom-pom like), but grown on a twiggy shrub. The flowers are a pale apricot-orange colour.

It was a common garden plant in the 1970s.

Does anyone know what it is?

It is likely to be found in gardens that were planted over 50 -60 years ago.

It sounds like it could be a kerria (? sp) japonica.

Marigold?

Calendula?

Dahlia?

Kerria Japonica by the sound of it. Otherwise known as Batchelor’s Buttons.

What time of year does it flower and what type of leaf and how big is the size of bush/plant?

Witch hazel?

That was quick.

It's definitely not a marigold.

It's a twiggy shrub about 4 ft high and the flowers are a pastel peach colour, and like pompoms. It's not completely covered in flowers.

The kerria japonica pleniflora could be it but I remember the flowers as orangey or peachy not yellow.

Thanks you geniuses.

Now trying to decide if I need one.

Could it be buddleia globosa?

the buddleia globusa grows like the normal buddleia I think, so more than 4 ft high
likewise the kerria is taller than 4 ft
is this a childhood memory? because you may not have accurate recall of the size
and where was it? because I never saw the buddleia globusa except in the south west I think, definitely not in the north

No it will be the kerria.

It wasn't in the South West but I've seen one fairly recently.
My grandparents had one and it was considered to be a special plant but they called it by a different name, but that name led me to a completely different shrub.

The photo I posted is pretty much it.

I'm sort of intrigued as to why plants go out of fashion. I tend to prefer purply and red colours, but need to do a cull on my garden.

Thanks everyone.

Definitely a Kerri.

Oh bugger!

Kerria.

i was thinking verbena?

nt sure if the peach version was a 70's favourite though

It's a kerria, we've got one in our garden. it used to be called a racist name.

I like them, an earlyish spring flowering shrub, IMO "fashion' in gardening is a load of old crap we just have what we like

The name my grandparents used wasn't racist, just the name of a different plant.

I agree you should have what you like. I remember the Ground Force (?) type programmes years ago and didn't like that look at all.

Yes Shula I don't like all the concrete\mirrors\plastic grass etc. put in gardens, maybe that fashion is changing slightly now, but it's not like we haven't got enough concrete everywhere else !

Not much concrete in mine. It's quite wildlife friendly for a town garden.

Fashion in garden plants definitely changes.

I see lots of photinia being used now, olive trees, acanthus.

Soldiers Buttons?

Yes soldiers or Jews Buttons. I can say that ,I'm half Jewish , it's because the flowers are yellow.

Oh. The term Jew isn't racist though.

No I know but the gardening books don't use that name any more, so they must feel it's not correct for some reason.

Thanks, i was beginning to question if it was or not.