Yes. Up sides - Tough as old boots, amazing fragrance, gorgeous big rosehips. Down sides - can be thuggish (it suckers), little tiny thorns that are awful to get out of your thumb.
If you have plenty of room and a windy site, it's ideal. In a small garden, I think it might be quite hard to keep confined enough to not become a nuisance
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Not good for me either. I sneaked a few hips from some plants ina car park in Wavre and sowed them. By spring I had a healthy crop of babies to grow on and ended up with a 20 metre hedge of it along our northwest boundary. All was well for a couple of years but the a couple of harsh, windy winters blasted it to pieces so the tops were ugly and needed heavy pruning but the roots had suckered and it started spreading everywhere.
I wanted it as a windbreak and wildlife feature. It failed on both counts.
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I like it, very pretty, lovely fragrance. Agree it does sucker and the thorns are mean. One problem I have with it is bits flopping forward onto the ground. I guess you are supposed to cut any floppy bits off, but it’s something I’d have to regularly, and I’m lazy so they tend to get left.
It really is a thug, I’ve got it everywhere here, never planted any of it , it just came. After the hips have died down a bit, and I’ve actually never seen it being eaten by birds, I cut the whole lot right down to the ground, next year it’s up again, double the size.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Should also have said - it doesn't really make a tidy hedge. It's a sprawler. Along a farm drive sounds perfect for it. I have it behind where our cars are parked, at the top of the drive, so the fact that the birds don't seem to eat the hips (although the bees do love the flowers) is a Good Thing for me or the cars would be permanently covered in pre-digested rosehip.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Up sides - Tough as old boots, amazing fragrance, gorgeous big rosehips.
Down sides - can be thuggish (it suckers), little tiny thorns that are awful to get out of your thumb.
If you have plenty of room and a windy site, it's ideal. In a small garden, I think it might be quite hard to keep confined enough to not become a nuisance
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I wanted it as a windbreak and wildlife feature. It failed on both counts.
After the hips have died down a bit, and I’ve actually never seen it being eaten by birds, I cut the whole lot right down to the ground, next year it’s up again, double the size.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”