[greeneyes]

Here’s a link that has a nice picture and description of the rose hip. I also has some links for using them. I usually use mine in tea. The ones I have are from rosa rugosa and the hips range from peas size to the size of olives. I just crush them a bit and toss them in the tea ball along with the herbal tea that I am steeping.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6909669_dry-rose-hips.html

[trisham]

I have rose rugosa. The original plant died for lack of sun as our weeping cherry grew much bigger than we had thought possible, but the hips seem to have seeded other plants.

[Marcella]

Thanks, I’ll go to that link and read everything. My roses are David Austin roses except for the one on the brick wall. I went with David Austin roses are they are resistant to everything bad for a rose. See, I bought roses from Lowes and killed them all. So, we drove to Tyler, Texas, to get the David Austin roses and I didn’t kill them. It was the 2011, 105-107 temps every day for a month that killed the climbing ones on back wall.

I don’t remember the name of the one on the brick wall but it’s thorns are body destroying. I think I wrote about the bug man who was climbing our brick walls to check for termites which that company does every year. When he came over my brick wall on that side he cut his arms up on those thorns. I felt bad about that and he said never cut that climbing rose as a bad guy is stopping and leaving when he encounters those wicked thorns.

Now, I’ll read about rose hips. I’ll put one in hot Silver Needle white tea as that is what I drink. I can’t stand herbal tea and I’ve tried them. You are welcome to the boxes of herbal I have if I haven’t already thrown them away. If you know of an herbal that has some taste, let me know.