Re: Growing Roses for Hips

A great rose for hips is the early hybrid tea "Mrs. Oakley Fisher".  It is a
light orange single with good foliage which withstands wind and fog.  It is
in almost constant bloom.  The hips are very large, round, and turn a
beautiful color.  Somehow I can't help thinking that Mrs. Oakley Fisher,
whoever she was, also had similar hips!  Cathy

> From: Tony and Moira Ryan <tomory@xtra.co.nz>
> Reply-To: tomory@xtra.co.nz
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:38:47 +1300
> To: Mediterannean Plants List <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: Re: Growing  Roses for Hips
> 
> Linda Starr wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know of some rose varieties to grow for their hips?  I
>> would like to utilize them for their winter interest and also for a
>> tea for vitamin C intake.  I have planted two small one gallon roses,
>> Rosa californica and Rose woodsii,  which I purchased from a native
>> plant nursery but I have not seen them with fruit - so I don't know
>> if they will produce good hips.  My climate here in the summer is
>> very hot and dry with some wind every afternoon.
> 
> One rose which has lovely big hips (and also grows very easily from them
> is R.rugosa. The species itself is nice and it also has a lot of most
> attractive varieties both single and semi-double almost all of which
> also bear viable hips from which if you like to try they grow very
> easily (Roseraie de l'Hay is one exception which seldom produces even
> one hip in a season). True rugosas are very tough customers with
> beautiful healthy disease-restant foliage and certainly will stand a lot
> of dry summer wind. A couple of the clear pink hybrids however, which
> must have some hybrid tea blood (Conrad F Meyer and Sarah Van Fleet),
> have unfortunately inherited a tendency to severe rust attacks..
> 
> Rugosas grow very well in almost any part of NZ and seem not to mind
> whatever climate they land in, so I should think they would also grow
> happily for you.
> 
> Moira
> 
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