By Bernie Bell. In the summer, a delicate rose in our hedge flowered for the first time We don’t know what variety it is, but it’s a beauty! Now, the hips are ripening – small, round, dark reddish/purple And, also in the hedge the Rosa Rugosa hips are ripening too – big, red and blowsy…
In the summer, a delicate rose in our hedge flowered for the first time
We don’t know what variety it is, but it’s a beauty!
Now, the hips are ripening – small, round, dark reddish/purple
And, also in the hedge the Rosa Rugosa hips are ripening too – big, red and blowsy
Food for the birds in the months ahead.
In the field over the hedge – first fungi this year
The year moves on
We’ve since found out what the mystery rose is likely to be…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_glauca
They came to be in our hedge because we bought them from Orkney Zero-waste….
https://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/oz/
….. planted them, and waited to see what would happen!
I love rose hips. I became acquainted with them when I lived in Alaska, and ate them as they are. I could find them in the wild, or at the shopping mall where they had planted them. They were prolific. Too lazy or not enough time to make jams.
When I was a child, we were given orange juice and rose-hip syrup free on the NHS (yes, I’m THAT old!) – those were the days. We have a lot of hips on the bushes in our garden, and they’re already being eaten by the birds – we make no use of them at all!
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