Forum home Plants
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

ROSES Autumn/Winter Season 2021/22

19394969899253

Posts

  • AthelasAthelas Posts: 946
    I joined a foraging course earlier this year and got to try some of their homemade rosehip jam, it was lovely  recipe here: https://www.foragingcoursecompany.co.uk/post/recipes-rosehip-jam
    Cambridgeshire, UK
  • newbie77newbie77 Posts: 1,838
    edited December 2021
    Oh so they are edible  :)

    I have around 8-10 blooms a week, just enough for little bouquet. They are a bit damaged in rain though. 

    Is code BARREL still working on DA and where in checkout do I put the code? I will be working from home again so going to save some ticket money. I am thinking of getting Eustacia Vye and may be one more rose. Can't decide between Dame Judi, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and butter cup. 
    South West London
  • cooldoccooldoc Posts: 853
    Rose hips look pretty and gives that extended interest to them.. Wondering if birds are after them or not??

    Is it only me that has pruned and defoliated :|
    A rose lover from West midlands
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I looked at DA yesterday and didn't see a spot for a code appearing.

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I looked at DA yesterday and didn't see a spot for a code appearing.

  • newbie77newbie77 Posts: 1,838
    Ok, so may be no codes. 
    South West London
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It could just be my browser or my tired brain... worth checking the codes.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I used to do a fair amount of foraging, making rosehip syrup from wild hedgerow roses, jam from wild bullace/damson trees, quinces picked from field margins and ditches for jelly/cheese, marmalade from Seville orange trees in towns and of course that festive favourite, sloe gin. Trouble is, we ended up with far too much of everything for the two of us and friends eventually got bored of having it foisted upon them. Apart from the slow gin, nobody ever got bored of that 😆 

    @cooldoc I did all my autumn pruning ages ago, taking a third off most things apart from the OGRs that resent pruning/need to develop more first. I will cut back some of the moderns more in January, by which time they might be more amenable to defoliating without sprouting right back! 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • newbie77newbie77 Posts: 1,838
    I would love to prune/clean but absolutely no time for it. 
    South West London
  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,674
    Can't see anywhere to put a code either on DA, but they usually have another don't they, end of the bare-root season?

    I don't think I'm getting my TCL order, but I guess that's ok in the end. Saves me some money and hard graft planting them all :D Seems loads of places are behind on getting orders out. 

    I haven't gotten round to pruning yet either, probably won't til Feb. Still have so much to do that's more time urgent and very little time/energy these days!

    I had my Pfizer booster, already feeling 😴

Sign In or Register to comment.