Those are rose hips, from garden hybrids.

never used them myself

as far as I read people rather use wild rose wips from Rosa canina or R rugosa.

you would wait till they are ripe and pick them, then open, de-seed and cook jam or dry.

kinda lot of work

Garden hybrids have all sorts of different hips,

some turn brown,

or are very tiny, probably taste different

if yours turn orange you could give it a try if you have some time to spare

could I pick now and dry inside for later use?

==>>> do you have some certain use in mind .. might be help to share that info

ken

This kind of rose isn't the type for using in teas or preserves. Garden hybrids have hard, dry hips with large seeds. And no, even the right sorts, as named above by linaria, will not ripen once picked. They need to be collected fully ripe and red. Garden roses benefit from dead heading so that the hips never develop. That way you'll get more blooms and neater bushes.

Ah darn..Ken I was thinking for what floral said teas and preserves and I've been letting them go to hips all season for that use I guess I will prune now thank you guys ...are the types of rose with edible rose hips kinda you can get from nursery or only wild? What kind should I be on the lookout with the specific intention of rose hips, would these ones at least dry nicely when picked for decoration or dryer floral arrangement?

Rosa rugosa hips are big and fleshy. Probably the best for the purpose. You should be able to buy the plant from a nursery.

The garden hybrids will not dry well. They often don't even go red. Linaria gave two species you could use for hips. You can get Rosa rugosa at a garden centre but probably not R canina, unless it is a nursery specialising in wild plants. I have a family rose hip story. Just after WW2 the UK government had a scheme for buying rose hips to produce vitamin C syrup for kids. My parents, very short of cash, spent hours gathering them from the thorny briars in the hedgerows only to discover that no more were being purchased when they finally got to the depot.

I LOVE rosehips and It might sound weird but I LOVE collecting them from those prickly bushes. People have different ways of collecting/harvesting/preserving them, but I use them as an additive for my tea to enhance its taste.

This is a long post but here is what I do:

- I have one rose bush in my yard, no idea what it is but some kind of hybrid, not the biggest or tastiest of all but I use them fresh because that's when they are the most healthiest with the highest vitamin C content, when it ripens in the fall I pick them off the bush and just store them in 2 open trays

- then I take a handful of soft ripe fresh rosehips, rinse them with water so they aren't dusty, put them into a spare teapot and mash them up and add hot water to cover them and let it steep for a day.

-Then the next day if you taste this it will hopefully be very flavorful and concentrated since it's a lot of rosehips, not a lot of water so the flavor leaches out. So what I do is I make my cup of black tea, and just pour about 1/3 of steeped rosehips to my cup through one of those mesh strainers you would find at the dollar store so I don't get any skin/seeds/etc in my cup.

- Once my rosehip teacup is empty in like 2 days, I steep it one more time with the same batch or if the old batch is not very flavorful, I make a new batch.

I do it because I like the taste and don't want to waste those perfectly fine rosehips

I only have a small bush so it lasts me like a month.

My winter routine with wild rosehips:

Then in the winter like around christmas, I go out to a wooded/naturalized area near my home where there are lots of the wild rose bushes with lots of colorful rosehips, and I pick them (last winter I picked about 30 pounds, with lots leftover that I couldn't reach and they last me almost until next winter).

When I get home I weigh them, inspect them, throw out any visually bad ones, and spread and periodically turn them on a breathable cotton sheet by the heating vent to help them dry (fairly dry in 2 or 3 weeks where I live),

then I put move them into a breathable bag (or breathable cotton-NOT polyester fabric bag or pillowcase also works) and leave them by the heating vent in the guest bedroom that's not used, and once a week I turn, flip, and shake the bag to mix it up and speed drying.

In the meantime I take a handful when I need and steep it up for my tea. By February/March they are completely dry (when completely dry 1 rosehip will break into lots of tiny pieces when you squeeze it) and I just store them in the cupboard in the kitchen and use when I need to, when they are completely dry and I add them and hot water into my teapot they will soak up some water and become breakable/mashable.

It's great fun, and great exercise in the winter, and tastes great and lasts a super long time

Windberry is correct. Rosa rugosa has the biggest,juiciest hips and alba is said to be the best. Rosa canina is very good too. They planted it all over England during world war 2 so the citizens would have more nutrition.

Aw so you do use your hybrid rose bush? Do they turn red or pink ever? Mine have been green since the first roses this season, occasionally one shrivels up then it's super tiny like a dark brown color, and really tough when do you use yours? Jay thanks for that info I saw a lot of those bushes on vacation but I had no idea they were rose hips!

"Garden hybrids" is being used here as though they were all the same. Which is far from the case.

Jay, Rosa canina was not planted 'all over England' (or even the UK). It is a widespread wild native plant. Did you read my anecdote? Rose hip collection

Embo, I know 'garden hybrids' are not all the same. I was trying to find an expression to use as a catchall for the non species roses and which don't produce such useable hips.

Sorry for the inaccuracies. I'm sure I read it somewhere. Probably on one of the links I pasted. Nice having an actual U.K. native around to set the record straight.

I must be a magnet for fake news. I like the real, true story much better. People coming together. and turning to nature for sustenance. How beautiful ! The rose hip syrup sounds delicious. I want to try it on pancakes. Not a big fan of maple syrup, too overwhelming. Thank you very much for the info. I think Rosa canina is beautiful. I wonder if a rose hip/ Hibiscus sabdariffa tea would taste good?

Another anecdote. In primary school there was a bed of hybrid garden roses along the side of the classroom block. We picked the hips, broke them open and shoved them down people's backs. This was known as 'itching powder' since the hairy seeds are intensely irritating.

@Devin I know some hybrids don't set rosehips or if they do it may not ripen,

but the one in my yard (it's been there before I moved in, I don't know what kind of rose it is but I assume some kind of hybrid since it's not a wild one and different from what other neighbors have), it gets rose hips that turn a pinkish orangey shade and they are smaller than the wild ones seen here (wild ones that I pick are more of a deep redish color).

They are still mostly green with some just starting to change color. They are usable but smaller and less fleshy than the natural ones I collect. Because of that I have to use more of them, they run out quickly being used up for my tea, I pick the ones from my yard usually the week or 2 after Halloween (fairly ripe pinkish orangey and softish if compared to a green one), but I don't have any experience with other types of hybrid roses

If you're interested instead of pruning yours why not just wait until late fall/early winter and see if anything ripens, maybe you will be pleasantly surprised by what you get, who knows :)

The species roses generally only flower once so leaving the hips to develop is not detrimental and indeed many have very ornamental fruit e.g. R moyesii. The garden hybrids do flower more than once and deadheading promotes this trait. So there is a conflict between optimum bloom and leaving the hips on.

Love both of the stories, floral. So when your parents had all those hips did you learn to love or hate rose hip tea?

tj

Aw yeah I may wait and see I just pulled on off and opened it it was mostly seed about 4/5 large round soft seeds so when you pick them do yours have seeds ? If so do u leave them in when using them or take them out? They're are some more flowers popping up now from it so like floral said I am conflicted on if I want to prune for better flowers or leave the hips I actually like the look of the hips too though

It was before I was born and anyway there is/was little tradition of drinking any kind of tea but real tea. I imagine they threw them out.

@Devin yeah there are always seeds, how much and how big seeds depends on the rose, you're probably able to see now why you would need a handful of hips if you want to steep them for tea like I do, because there's more seeds then flesh.

When I steep my rose hips I just mash up a handful in a spare teapot and cover with some hot water. The seeds and hairs don't bother me since when I decide to add some of my steeped rose hips to my tea for flavor, I pour it into my cup of tea through a mesh strainer, that way I just get the flavorful liquid and I don't get any of the nuisance seeds in my cup.

One single rose hip on the bush is now turning a pinking color!! I have another idea for them though, now sure if it would work but to dry them crush them in a spice grinder and use as an exfoliate in homemade soaps??