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Hi All

I have moved some plants from our side of the gargage to back garden today,
and quite a few of them are this plant - it looks like rose, but it is not,
as it has fruit which looks like baby tomatoes, and the stems are very
thorny. The way stems go up, it looks like roses..what is this plant, and
where are the best location (sunny, partial sunny or shade, wet dry soils??)
for them? How tall do they grow per year..etc?

Thanks in advance

Dan

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DLee wrote:

Hi All

I have moved some plants from our side of the gargage to back garden today,
and quite a few of them are this plant - it looks like rose, but it is not,
as it has fruit which looks like baby tomatoes, and the stems are very
thorny. The way stems go up, it looks like roses..what is this plant, and
where are the best location (sunny, partial sunny or shade, wet dry soils??)
for them? How tall do they grow per year..etc?

Thanks in advance


A rose of some sort? The fruits are the 'haws' or 'hips' if this is
case.. Does it look anything like the ones at this link??

http://snurl.com/2nbi

If they are then they will grow much the same as roses,.. very tough.

//
Jim

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Hi Jim

Thats it! - What can I do without this good old internet eh?? I can tell it
from the way the fruits look - I thought they were baby tomatoes ..So they
are just type of rose - but then, they will need a lot of sun and fertiliser
and water like roses?

cheers

Dan



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DLee wrote:

Hi All

I have moved some plants from our side of the gargage to back garden
today,
and quite a few of them are this plant - it looks like rose, but it is
not,
as it has fruit which looks like baby tomatoes, and the stems are very
thorny. The way stems go up, it looks like roses..what is this plant,
and
where are the best location (sunny, partial sunny or shade, wet dry
soils??)
for them? How tall do they grow per year..etc?

Thanks in advance


A rose of some sort? The fruits are the 'haws' or 'hips' if this is
case.. Does it look anything like the ones at this link??

http://snurl.com/2nbi

If they are then they will grow much the same as roses,.. very tough.

//
Jim

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DLee wrote:

Hi Jim

Thats it! - What can I do without this good old internet eh?? I can tell it
from the way the fruits look - I thought they were baby tomatoes ..So they
are just type of rose - but then, they will need a lot of sun and fertiliser
and water like roses?

cheers

Dan


No, rose hips are generally a lot tougher.. Of course you can feed and
water 'anything' and make it grow soft and lush but generally ours (like
our roses) don;t get anything much other than a good muclch of bark
chips as weed control and mebbe top dressing of compost or well rotted
manure each year at the most. Other than that they are left to fend for
themselves!-)

I'm no expert on the Rosa species though.

/
Ji

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Thanks for your info - much appreciated.

Dan


"Jim W" wrote in message
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DLee wrote:

Hi Jim

Thats it! - What can I do without this good old internet eh?? I can tell
it
from the way the fruits look - I thought they were baby tomatoes ..So
they
are just type of rose - but then, they will need a lot of sun and
fertiliser
and water like roses?

cheers

Dan


No, rose hips are generally a lot tougher.. Of course you can feed and
water 'anything' and make it grow soft and lush but generally ours (like
our roses) don;t get anything much other than a good muclch of bark
chips as weed control and mebbe top dressing of compost or well rotted
manure each year at the most. Other than that they are left to fend for
themselves!-)

I'm no expert on the Rosa species though.

/
Ji

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"DLee" wrote in message
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Hi All

I have moved some plants from our side of the gargage to back garden
today,
and quite a few of them are this plant - it looks like rose, but it is
not,
as it has fruit which looks like baby tomatoes, and the stems are very
thorny.

Sounds very much like Rosa Rubigosa. It was sold in large quantities via ads
in the daily press in the seventies as a quick informal hedging plant.
(Before the Leylandii explosion.) It is pretty indestructible and grows
almost anywhere with little attention needed.

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"Sad Sid" . wrote in message
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Sounds very much like Rosa Rubigosa.

Rosa rugosa
It is a wonderful rose. Some varieties are grown especially for the large
red hips.
They will grow practically anywhere.
Each of mine just get one handful of Rrowmore fertiliser each year.

It was sold in large quantities via ads
in the daily press in the seventies as a quick informal hedging plant.
(Before the Leylandii explosion.) It is pretty indestructible and grows
almost anywhere with little attention needed.

Agreed

Franz

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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"Sad Sid" . wrote in message
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[snip]

Sounds very much like Rosa Rubigosa.

Rosa rugosa
It is a wonderful rose. Some varieties are grown especially for the large
red hips.
They will grow practically anywhere.
Each of mine just get one handful of Rrowmore fertiliser each year.

Growmore!

Franz

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Glad that I hadn't bung the berries into my salad plate... :-)

Dan



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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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[snip]

Sounds very much like Rosa Rubigosa.

Rosa rugosa
It is a wonderful rose. Some varieties are grown especially for the
large
red hips.
They will grow practically anywhere.
Each of mine just get one handful of Rrowmore fertiliser each year.

Growmore!

Franz

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The message
from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

Growmore!

Viagra!

--
Rusty Hinge
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm

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Glad that I hadn't bung the berries into my salad plate... :-)

They're fine, as long as you remove the pips, and any fibrous bits.

--
Rusty Hinge
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm

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"Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message
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The message
from "Franz Heymann" contains these
words:

Growmore!

Viagra!

Botanical Viagra, not Zoological ditto.

Franz

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"DLee" wrote in message
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Glad that I hadn't bung the berries into my salad plate... :-)

Dan

Get yourself recipes for rose hip syrup and rose hip wine. Both are
excellent.

Franz

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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:25:19 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:

The message
from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

Growmore!

Viagra!

SPAM!
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Martin

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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:38:28 +0200, martin wrote:

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:25:19 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:

The message
from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

Growmore!

Viagra!

SPAM!

Processed meat ... yet again!

Geoff