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What type of bush is this?

sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
Hi!

Please could someone let me know what type of bush this is? Its in the front garden, and it looks like its been trimmed as a spherical shape:



Just need to know the name so I know when to prune it

Thank you! 

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It looks like some kind of species rose.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    The stems are quite woody - and I looked today, and those bulbous things have shrivelled up - are those characteristics of roses too?
  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    Ill get more photos 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    As B3 says likely a species rose.
    It may be there was a cultivated there rose originally and the rootstock has taken over.
    I've got one the same in my front garden - about 8ft high now. It'll probably have single flowers anywhere from white to pink
    If you leave it, it'll be covered in attractive bright red hips through winter and provide food for birds.
    You can prune it anytime from January to late February

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    Ignore my comment - I was getting two different bushes mixed up!

    thank you B3

    Pete8 - Thank you - I will leave it alone then

    Many thanks



  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yes it’s a rose bush of some sort. It’ll flower again next summer and then we’ll know more about the possible type. The bulbous things are the seed cases also called rose hips. 

    Its possibly an early flowering type ... those rose hips will probably turn red and look beautiful in the autumn and provide lots of food for the wild birds 😀

    It won’t really need a lot of pruning unless it grows too large or needs rejuvenating.

    Don’t prune it now as it is likely to be a type that flowers on growth produced in the previous year so pruning now would mean that you would not get many flowers next year. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    Thank you very much! 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Looks like my Rosa Rugosa, self seeds everywhere, I never planted it now it’s right along the banks. I cut it to the ground late winter.
    does yours have bright pink flowers? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    Hi Lyn

    Thank you - I am not sure - I have just moved in, and don't know anything about roses!


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