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Rose hips
Mulberry badger
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I have a beautiful rose which has large hips appearing. It also has some dead rose blooms which I would normally dead head but now I am confused, do I leave them to become hips or do I dead head? Would appreciate your thoughts, thank you.
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Hi I made a rose hip syrup last year and used it to drizzle over puddings and ice cream . Does not take long to make and again you can use up your garden produce. You will find a recipe on google easily as I am on holiday and don't have the information at hand
happy gardening
The main purpose of dead-heading is to encourage repeat flowering roses to produce more blooms.
At this time of year that's unlikely to happen, so I would leave the hips on the bush to feed the birds in the winter
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dear Mulberry Badger. My wife (whose name is also Rose, by the way, but there the coincidence ends - she is not beautiful) also has large hips. Dead-heading her will be misunderstood, as I know from bitter experience. As for 'making syrup' - one shudders at what one suspects is a vulgaris euphemism. Best regards
Hi, Mr. Busch, I hope your wife doesn't read the Forum or she might be tempted to do some headheading of her own. I laughed anyway.
Think I will go with Doves advice and leave well alone.
My husband has recently taken to making our own icecream so perhaps I will try the syrup too.
Thank you all.