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Marches
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Does anyone grow roses for the rose hips?I keep seeing a lovely Rosa rugosa growing wild in a hedge. I'm thinking about getting such a plant and growing one or two in my hedge too. They're very ornamental but not weak and a scraggy like cultivated roses and are very tough and ornamental.
But they also have large rose hips which are edible like dog rose ones.
One of my hedges is on sandy soil and Rosa rugosa often grows and sand dunes in its native land (North East Asia) and it isn't usually grafted neither. It sounds like a perfect addition to the hedge.
Does anyone grow roses for them or consumer rose hips?
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Luath
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I grow roses for lots of reasons - firstly the flowers - cut for the house; I use the petals in jam, wine and pot pourri mixes, dried and fresh; I use the rosehips for jams, wines, syrups, etc too. Indispensable in the garden. 
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Luath
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btw, you can use the hips from all roses, not just rugosa. I have some beautiful black ones here, just as useful and good tasting 
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Marches
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btw, you can use the hips from all roses, not just rugosa. I have some beautiful black ones here, just as useful and good tasting |
Yes, but rugosa is like the Bramley apple of the rose hip world - larger in size than most.
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Hairyloon
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I do not like roses. Nasty viscous sharp pointy things. I do not grow them, but I have a few that have grown themselves.
I tolerate them because I understand they helped us win the war.
I might dislike them less if I could find a good use for them.
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Green Rosie
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I've planted a Rosa rugosa hedge to both look lovely on our boundary bank where no other hedge plants seem to survive and to be able to harvest the hips to make rosehip syrup. It's just starting to flower now.
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bulworthy project
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We use the hips of wild roses for our winemaking and have recently planted a couple of rosa rugosa bushes for that reason. For winemaking hips that size are a fantastic resource.
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LynneA
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Not a big fan of roses either.
We inherited a rosa rugosa hedge at our old allotment, and I made rosehip jam. Gorgeous, but an incredible pfaff to prepare.
There are rosa rugosa plants in parts of the housing estate we live on now, and might have a go at making rosehip syrup later this year.
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alison
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We have a few hedges like this, around the house, and I usually make rosehip syrup every autumn.
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Luath
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btw, you can use the hips from all roses, not just rugosa. I have some beautiful black ones here, just as useful and good tasting |