{"id":611960095046,"date":"2025-10-16T16:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/uncategorized\/hips-and-haws\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:42:20","slug":"hips-and-haws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/roses\/hips-and-haws\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Hips are Pretty &amp; Good to Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rose hips are mostly an ornamental second display from Autumn into Winter, but all rose hips are edible if you want to go through the trouble of preparing them<\/h2><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/collections\/rose-bushes\">Rose bushes<\/a> have edible flowers and fruit, which are called hips.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-faq-block\">\n<div class=\"rank-math-faq-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question\">Are all rose hips edible?<br>\n<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer\">Yes, all rose hips are edible, but some cultivated garden varieties have poor flavour or are too small for convenient eating, or make no hips in the case of self-deadheading varieties.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rank-math-faq-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question\">Which roses produce the best hips for eating?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer\">Wild hedge roses produce the best hips, in particular Dog Rose, Field Rose, Sweet Briar, and Scotch Burnet.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/collections\/wild-rose-plants\">Wild hedge roses<\/a> best rose hips list: <\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/dog-rose-hedge-plants-rosa-canina\">Dog Rose<\/a> (<em>Rosa canina<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/field-rose-briar-hedge-plants-rosa-arvensis\">Field Rose<\/a> (<em>Rosa arvensis<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/sweet-briar-eglantine-rose-hedge-plants-rosa-rubiginosa\">Sweet Briar<\/a> (<em>Rosa rubiginosa<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/scotch-burnet-rose-hedge-plants-rosa-spinosissima\">Scotch Burnet Rose<\/a> (<em>Rosa pimpinellifolia<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Almost all roses will make hips <strong>if <\/strong>they get pollinated <strong>and <\/strong>you allow them to develop, which is not usually the case with a typical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/collections\/hybrid-tea-rose-bushes\">Hybrid Tea<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/collections\/floribunda-rose-bushes\">Floribunda<\/a> garden rose because it gets deadheaded and pruned.<\/p><p>So the roses covered in hips each year tend to have simple, open flowers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/collections\/wild-rose-plants\">wild native roses<\/a> like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/dog-rose-hedge-plants-rosa-canina\">dog rose<\/a>, a typical component of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/collections\/mixed-hedging-plant-packs\">mixed hedge packs<\/a>. <\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/roseraie-de-lhay-shrub-rose-plants\">Rosa rugosa Ramanas Roses<\/a> have huge hips in bright colours with good flavour, but they have a lot of hairs inside to remove first. <\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/red-leaf-rose-hedge-plants-rosa-glauca-rubrifolia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rosa glauca<\/a> sports plum tomato type hips, and is often grown as a shrub. <\/li>\n<li>Rambling roses flower once in Summer, and can be left untrimmed until their hips have faded\/fallen; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/rambling-rector-rambling-rose-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rambling Rector<\/a> has tiny oval orange hips, and the floriferous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/wedding-day-rambling-rose-plants\">Wedding Day<\/a> and pale pink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/pauls-himalayan-musk-rambling-rose-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul&#8217;s Himalayan Musk<\/a> both hip up nicely. <\/li>\n<li>Among the climbers, the sorbet Paul&#8217;s Lemon Pillar produces lovely hips.<\/li>\n<li>The best shrub roses fopr hips include red <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/moyesii-geranium-shrub-rose-plants\">Geranium<\/a>, pink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/felicia-shrub-rose-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Felicia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/buff-beauty-shrub-rose-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apricot Buff Beauty<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/penelope-shrub-rose-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">white Penelope<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/rosa-mundi-versicolor-shrub-rose-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rosa mundi<\/a>, and deep velvet red <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/tuscany-superb-shrub-rose-plants\">Tuscany Superb<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Rose hips are a standard ingredient in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/blog\/hedgerow-jelly\">our hedgerow jelly<\/a>, and because I haven&#8217;t made one earlier, I&#8217;ll send you to the BBC for a plain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbcgoodfood.com\/user\/3349356\/recipe\/how-make-rose-hip-jam\">Rose Hip Jam Recipe<\/a>.<\/p><p><\/p>\n\n<section class=\"prodshow-shopify-block\" \n         id=\"prodshow-block-1\"\n         >\n\t\n\t<div class=\"prodshow-container\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Multiple Products\/Collection 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