[Steppes] Question for Gardeners and Herbalists

[Betsy Marshall]

are they balls at the top of the flower stem, with a dry-ish
fringe-y tuft on top? and 5 pointy leaf looking things?
then they are rose hips. they will get bigger, then shrivel
and turn brown. (some hips turn red first, but it's a
temp related thing.)inside are seeds for new rose plants.
I have never sucessfully started a new rose plant from seed,
 but I know it can be done.
many gardening product/gift books have projests for hips,
dry for tea or pouporri or such like, but I never had the required number
all at once.
Suzanna will likely know more on the usefulness scale..
Pyro

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From: steppes-admin at ansteorra.org [mailto:steppes-admin at ansteorra.org]On
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Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 3:40 PM
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Subject: [Steppes] Question for Gardeners and Herbalists


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Since I was mostly gone for the last month, my garden has received more than
its usual portion of neglect.  Today, while cleaning the garage, I found my
shears (part of the reason to clean the garage) and went to deadhead my
roses.

On the climbing yellow vine (the one that is supposed to climb, unlike the
red roses which just seem to be climbing anyway), many of the roses
apparently bloomed and died while I was away.  Now, at the base of where the
flower was, I am getting round balls.  Are these rose hips?  If so, how do I
harvest them?  If not, I am going to cut them off, but I wanted to be sure
that I am not missing anything useful.

                                ---= Morgan (anybody want to buy some yarn?)


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