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rosehip
my little girl picked up a rosehip yesterday, we walk past a house with this rose bush, it was flowering all through winter, it looks like complicata/ superfairy/rosa canina ( sorry can't be specific!) I think this is whererthe hip came from, it was near there... how can we best try to sow the seeds? she would be soexcited to get a rose she's grown herself
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Sprinkle on the surface of a pot of gritty compost or soil and MPC mix.
Cover with a layer of fine grit. Leave outside or in a cold frame. You may be lucky to get them to germinate this year, but they may need cold stratification and germinate next spring.
Be prepared for your new roses to be like nothing you have ever seen before. I picked a black rosehip from a plant in a supermarket carpark and research suggests it should be a reasonably sized pimpinellifolia. The plant is huge......but the flowers are the sweetest scent I have ever come across.
I thank yo all, haven' t room for it anyway, just want the fun of growing it with my daughter, I'll let you know, actually the rugosa seeds I sowed last autumn look like they've germinated ( although I' m extremely naughty and never remember to label anything, just from where I' d left the pit I' presuming!!)
Rugosa seeds germinated for me. I potted them up and put them in a cold frame over winter. Now I have five bushes, flowering for their second year. Lovely!
The best rose germination I ever had was after making rosehip wine. Boiling water poured on the hips, soaked for several days, strained off and the remains thrown on the garden. A rose forest developed.
Some Rosa rugosa sown in autumn germinated almost immediately and flowered within 12 months.
Rosa rubrifolia in a pot did nothing but the garden has plenty of selfsets
In the sticks near Peterborough