Rosehip is a perennial flowering ornamental shrub berry plant, a close relative of the most regal flowers - roses. Among its many species and varieties, we most often find unattractive and unsightly wild specimens that do not interest flower lovers and gardeners. But recently, landscape designers have begun to pay more and more attention to cultivated varieties of rose hips, which are distinguished by their uniqueness and individual decorative characteristics.
Benefits of cultivated rose hips
Healing properties of berries
In folk and official medicine, the medicinal properties of wild rose berries have long been known. They contain a whole storehouse of vitamins, trace elements and various useful substances that help in the restoration of the work of many organs and systems. Berries are actively used for the preparation of drinks, decoctions, juices, and not only for medical purposes, but also in culinary production.
Decorativeness
In contrast to the taste, the berries of the park rose hips are also endowed with unique external qualities. Throughout the year, in different seasons, this fruit shrub is a real decoration of the garden or personal plot.
Bright garden "beads", which in the autumn months transform the garden area, involuntarily attract the glances of passers-by and permanent residents. Thousands of scarlet berries dress up the plants in festive outfits and cheer up all observers of changes in nature. In the spring-summer period, the cultivated rosehip delights with the splendor of its fragrant crown, the beauty of gentle flowering in pastel shades. In the cold winter months, the numerous thorny branches look like delicate lace against the backdrop of sparkling white snow.
These cultures look elegant and have their own unique image against the background of other representatives of the flora. Blooming and fruiting rose hips are individuality and unrestrained temperament, it is a large attractive accent in a natural ensemble, it is the basis of a landscape natural composition.
Easy care
Rosehip is a rare plant that requires little or no maintenance. With a minimum of attention, the shrub fully grows and develops, blooms and bears fruit, and also decorates the garden. It does not require mandatory standard procedures such as watering, fertilizing, loosening the soil, spraying and removing dried and wilted flowers. The only thing that the plant will need at a certain stage is formative or rejuvenating pruning.
Undemanding maintenance and simplified care is a convincing argument for choosing a cultivated rose hip as a decorative design for a garden area.
Powerful root system
Areas with various non-standard terrain (for example, ravines, slopes, slopes) or an area prone to erosion and crumbling of the soil, you can not only decorate and decorate with park rose hips, but also strengthen the soil on them. Thanks to the powerful root system of this crop, the soil in the garden area will no longer be subject to destruction due to heavy rainfall or strong gusts of wind. True, transplanting and planting shrubs for the purpose of reproduction or changing the place of cultivation, because of this feature, the plant will become a serious problem.
Variety of varieties
Every gardener and florist can choose a suitable variety of park rose hips for their garden. In this variety, there are shrubs for every taste. Most of the cultivated species are short, unpretentious and undemanding to grow. They have numerous decorative qualities, look elegant and compact, can look great on their own and do not lose their individuality in group plantings.
Versatility
Rosehip is a versatile flowering shrub whose versatility allows it to adapt to any conditions. With its help, you can realize the most unusual decorative fantasies in the garden and on your personal plot, as well as put into practice various ideas of landscape designers. Culture will always take its rightful place in natural composition and decorative ensemble.
Disadvantages of cultivated rosehip varieties:
- A powerful root system makes it difficult to transplant plants;
- Inability to control the development and growth of shrubs;
- Excessive number of thorns;
- Limited options for a plant style for use in garden design.
The use of rose hips in garden design
Rosehips can be planted in front gardens against the backdrop of modest shrubs of other species. Throughout the years, it will look spectacular and be a luxurious decoration, both during flowering and during the ripening period. Plants look no less attractive as a hedge. Such a "fence", in addition to decorative purposes, is also a reliable shield from uninvited guests. It is unlikely that anyone would like to wade through the impenetrable thorny thickets.
Landscape blooming ensembles of large sizes, flower beds and rabatki are a great place for growing park rose hips. They can be found on any plane in the composition of flowering plants, since varietal rose hips are presented in numerous compact and miniature species, differing in growth and splendor. Depending on the relief of the selected area, thorny shrubs can become a central element on a high or steep slope, in a rock garden.
Rosehip is a versatile plant that can be combined with almost all representatives of the flora and at the same time look favorably against their background. The shrub can itself be the background, as well as create volume and be the central lush element. He has an amazing ability to combine different types and varieties of shrubs into a single composition. Mixed plantings with rose hips become a single and integral landscape. The rose hip bush looks no less interesting as a bright single accent with a beautifully formed crown.
The cultivation of varietal rose hips is possible not only in open areas. They grow well in a variety of flower containers (for example, large wooden tubs or tall pots). The amount of berries harvested does not depend on the place of cultivation. Adequate sunlight, good air circulation and a flower container height of at least 60 cm are prerequisites.
Cultivated rose hips can be combined with annuals and perennials that suit the same growing conditions and location.In a rustic garden - these are asters and phlox, in the Mediterranean - lavender, in the classic - a cuff, bell, garden geranium. For lone plantings in pots and tubs, verbena or haulteria will be a good addition.
Species, varieties and hybrids of park rose hips
- "Yundzilla" is a lacy variety of park rose hips with a dense crown. The average height of the shrub is from 0.5 to 2 m.
- "Official" - rose variety "Gallic", has a very beautiful spreading crown, used in a landscape garden.
- "Nana" is a hybrid variety derived from a multi-flowered rose. Rosehip is distinguished by a large number of flowers in pastel shades and a long flowering period that lasts about 3 months. The fruits are small and unfit for consumption. The variety is mainly used for decorative purposes.
- "Mont Blanc" is a hybrid variety, a distinctive feature of which is the large flowers of a snow-white shade and small leaves with a lace pattern.
- "Scabroza" is a hybrid variety of park rose hips with large fruits. The plant has attractive bright green foliage.
- "Robin Hood" is a rosehip variety that blooms with very beautiful flowers of a delicate pink hue. In early autumn, the shrub attracts attention with juicy bright red berries.
- "Pyro 3" is a cultivated rose hip variety, the height of which reaches 1.5 m at maturity. A distinctive feature of the variety is its large bright pink flowers with a large bunch of stamens of a rich sunny color and fleshy juicy berries.
- "Ballerina" is a variety that grows well in penumbra areas. It blooms with delicate flowers of unique beauty with petals of various shades of pink. The fruits of this variety are ideal for culinary and medicinal purposes.
- "Resonance" is a terry rosehip variety, reaching 1 m in height. It blooms with bright red flowers of medium size.
- "Red Rugostar" is a compact semi-double variety with a height of up to 80 cm and dark red flowers.
- "Shni Koppé" is a semi-double undersized variety with large pink flowers. Average height - no more than 80 cm.
- "Thisba" is a semi-double hybrid variety of rose hips, which is distinguished by flowering in several stages and a rare color of flowers with a peach tint. The average height of an adult plant is 1.5 m.
- "Northern Lights" is a semi-double undersized variety with flowers of unusual color (salmon) and shape (like a saucer).
- "Hammerberg" is a variety that is distinguished by repeated flowering and an extraordinary aroma of bright pink flowers.
Most of the cultivated rose hips are artificially bred rose varieties. Their height ranges from 50 cm to 2 m. Shrubs differ in external indicators - color and structure of flowers, crown splendor, decorativeness, as well as in the size and juiciness of fruits. Uncultivated shrub plants do not have the same amount of decorative advantages, but are indispensable for creating impenetrable hedges. All that is required for such varieties of rose hips is to control the height of the bush and the diameter of the crown. Pruning regularly will help keep your plants looking good throughout the year.
Basic growing tips
The soil in the area where the park rose hips will grow should not be calcareous. Good drainage is essential.
The growing place should be in an open area, in extreme cases, in partial shade.
Solar coverage of the site should be maximum throughout the day. A sufficient amount of sunlight is the key to the full development of the rose hips and the high quality of the fruit.
Rosehip is an unpretentious but freedom-loving shrub. Free space within a radius of at least sixty centimeters from the bush is an ideal condition for the comfortable and active development of a useful decorative culture.
