What does a terry rose hip look like?
Terry varieties are called decorative varieties, usually hybrids of wrinkled rose hips, close in appearance and characteristics to garden roses. These shrubs reach about 1.5-2 m in height and have a developed root system with many shoots. The branches of terry rosehip are covered with small or large thorns.
From May and throughout the summer, the plant bears fragrant buds on annual shoots. The flowers have a complex structure, each of them consists of 40-60 petals. Terry buds look bright, impressive, and attract attention.
Terry rosehips bear scanty fruit or do not produce berries at all
Which ones are considered the most medicinal?
Not all varieties of rose hips have medicinal properties; about 30 species with different compositions are used for medicinal purposes. The most often used for medicinal raw materials are the varietal varieties of May or cinnamon, needle, wrinkled and Daurian species, due to the high content of vitamin C and pronounced antioxidant, immunomodulatory, tonic and wound-healing properties.
These are the varieties:
- "Anniversary";
- "Hedgehog";
- "Lights of Samara";
- "Terneysky";
- "Geisha";
- "Vitamin."
Varieties of terry rose hips
Terry rose hips are represented by a large number of hybrid varieties. Species are classified primarily by the color of the buds.
Yellow terry rosehip
Yellow terry rose hips are especially popular due to the bright sunny or honey shades of the buds. Looks good against the background of greenery in the garden, combined with plants with white or red flowering.
Agnes
A hybrid variety up to 2.5 m above the ground is characterized by increased resistance to unfavorable growing conditions and looks good in borders and hedges. At the beginning of summer it bears single creamy yellow double buds, consisting of 40-80 petals each. The flowers are lighter at the edges and become rich amber towards the middle. The Agnes variety exudes a pleasant fruity aroma. The buds reach 7 cm in diameter.
Rosehip variety Agnes can bloom again in early autumn
Rugelda
A hybrid of wrinkled rose hips that re-blooms in early autumn and rises up to 2 m above the ground. It has glossy dark green leaves and produces lemon-yellow buds up to 9 cm wide with reddish edges in June. Individual flowers may form small corymbs. Rosehip Rugelda has good resistance to powdery mildew and black spot, and is suitable for hedges and artistic groups.
The shoots of the rosehip Rugelda are abundantly covered with thorns
Red terry rosehip
Decorative double rosehip with red flowering looks impressive in any garden. With its help, it is convenient to place accents on your summer cottage and highlight areas that require special attention.
Kaiserin ties Nordens
A tall shrub up to 2 m above ground level has small dark green leaves with a wrinkled surface. It enters the decorative period at the end of May; in mid-summer it can bloom again. Brings large double buds of a rich red-raspberry hue, collected in inflorescences.
The rose hip variety Kaiserin is highly frost-resistant.
Hansaland
A hybrid of wrinkled rose hips that reblooms in mid to late summer, grows up to 1.8m and spreads 1m wide. It is distinguished by rich green leaves with a glossy surface and produces bright red terry-type buds up to 7 cm in diameter. It blooms very profusely and looks good in hedges.
The Hansaland variety is immune to blight and powdery mildew.
Rosehip with double pink flowers
Photos of pink terry rose hips demonstrate that the bush looks very romantic in the garden and helps create an atmosphere of carefree and lightness. Suitable for single planting, but more often used in artistic groups with bright red or white flowering perennials.
Muscosa
The terry rose hips of the Muscoza variety are low varieties and grow on average up to 1 m. The leaves of the shrub are large and matte, the shoots are covered with thin, frequent thorns. The variety blooms with densely double pink spherical buds, consisting of 100-120 petals, single and in small inflorescences. It exudes a strong pleasant aroma and tolerates winter cold well.
The buds of the Muscosa variety reach 7 cm in diameter
Hansa
A beautiful plant up to 2 m tall has very abundant flowering. Produces fragrant pink-violet buds up to 10 cm wide, each consisting of 30-40 petals. Well suited for group and single plantings, used in hedges. At the end of summer, with proper care, it can bloom again.
Attention! Hansa is one of the abundantly fruiting varieties and produces large, tasty berries.
The Hanza variety winters well in the northern regions
White terry rosehip
Bushes of white terry rose hips become a real decoration of the garden. They look equally impressive in sunny areas and in partial shade, and go well with most other flowering plants.
Lac Majeau
A vigorous shrub up to 2 m bears large oval buds of a white hue, collected in inflorescences of up to five pieces. It emits a strong sweet smell and remains decorative from late June to mid-September. White terry fragrant rosehip bears red fruits after flowering; they do not have valuable taste, but they look attractive.
Variety Lac Mezhu has shoots with weak and soft thorns
Alba Meidiland
The unpretentious beautiful variety Alba Maidiland blooms with lush small terry buds of a white hue. The flowers are collected in corymbs of up to ten pieces and emit a faint pleasant smell. They do not require pruning at the end of the decorative period, since they fall off on their own. The shrub is low, only up to 70 cm above the ground surface, but at the same time it spreads up to 2 m in diameter.
The Alba Maidiland variety blooms from mid-June to September
Use in landscape design
This ornamental plant has found its application in landscape design. It is similar in beauty to a rose, but is easy to care for.
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Thanks to their dense foliage and delicate flowers, the bushes are used to create hedges.
It is also used in large landscape ensembles, where compositions from various varieties of rose hips play the role of the main element.
The plant looks good when planted alone on a green lawn, or when framed by abelia and verbena.
In a landscape garden, geraniums, lavender, and bluebells go well with shrubs, and in a rustic garden - phlox and asters.
Planting and caring for terry rose hips
Terry rose hips generally have the same care requirements as other varieties of the crop. Decorative varieties are distinguished by good endurance and strong immunity, but require regular fertilizing and haircuts.
Requirements for place and soil
Terry rose hips tolerate light shading well. But he feels most comfortable in illuminated areas with shelter from the wind. The bush requires moist soil, but not swampy. It should be neutral in composition; the culture does not develop well on acidic or alkaline soil.
How to plant correctly
Planting is best done in the fall - in October or early November. The algorithm looks like this:
- in the selected area, dig up the soil, if it is acidified, add compost, lime and rotted manure;
- make a hole no more than 50 cm deep - it should be twice the size of the roots of the seedling;
- a drainage layer is poured onto the bottom of the depression and the hole is filled to the middle with a mixture of garden soil, compost and peat;
- the seedling is cut off, leaving 20 cm of the underground part and 10 cm of shoots;
- The plant is immersed in the prepared hole and the roots are straightened, and then covered with the remains of the soil mixture.
When planting, the root collar is deepened to 8 cm. The seedling is watered abundantly and the tree trunk is immediately sprinkled with sawdust for mulching.
Advice! In the northern regions, the plant can be planted in mid-spring or early autumn, depending on weather conditions.
When and what to fertilize
It is necessary to feed terry rose hips for the first time in the third year after planting. The crop accepts nitrogen fertilizers best. They are applied in an amount of about 100 g for each bush in spring and summer - at the beginning of the growing season, before flowering and at the end. After harvesting, terry rose hips can be fed with potassium and phosphorus - 150-170 g of minerals per plant.
Once every three years, it is recommended to scatter organic matter under the rose hips - rotted manure or compost.
Trimming
Decorative terry rose hips require regular pruning. In the second year of life, weakened shoots are removed from the bush, leaving only the strongest and healthiest. In subsequent seasons, aging branches are regularly removed. A neat bush should consist of 4-5 well-developed shoots.
Every year, decorative pruning is carried out for terry rose hips. During this process, all diseased, broken and dried parts that interfere with the development of the bush are removed.
Preparing for winter
Most varietal terry rose hips tolerate winter cold well. But with the onset of autumn, it is necessary to fill the tree trunk circle with a 10 cm layer of peat or compost, as well as add fallen leaves and straw. Young plants are covered with burlap or lutrasil along the crown, and flexible shoots are tied up.
Diseases and pests of shrubs, combating them
Rosehip diseases are associated with pathogenic fungi, which actively multiply and destroy the plant during humid and hot summers:
- Powdery mildew causes a white coating to appear on the leaves and buds. The plant begins to lag behind in development, shoots do not appear on it, the flowers dry out and fall off. Resistance to the disease increases if it is promptly fed with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers.
- Infection with rust fungus is determined by spots and brown stripes on the underside of the leaf. The disease is transmitted by insects.
- Sooty fungus is spread by thrips and aphids. The black coating on the leaves of the rosehip slows down the processes of photosynthesis and respiration, and it begins to weaken.
Fungicides will save you from diseases. Among them, Fundazol is the most effective. They are sprayed with it for both medicinal and preventive purposes. Before the procedure, dissolve one gram of powder in a liter of water. Treatment with Bordeaux mixture and colloidal sulfur is also used.
Among the pests that pose a danger to rose hips are spider mites, rose hip flies, and rose hip flies. If parasites are detected, it is necessary to treat the bushes with insecticides such as Confidor. The long-acting drug eliminates aphids, whiteflies, spider mites, and their larvae. Folk remedies include treatment with tobacco dust and a solution of laundry soap. Timely pruning of shrubs and loosening of the soil will prevent the appearance of diseases and pests on rose hips.
Reproduction methods
On the site, terry rose hips can be propagated in several ways:
- Seeds. The fruits for planting material are collected in August, and the seeds are stratified in the refrigerator until spring. In March, the seeds are buried in the soil in pots or boxes and the seedlings are grown at home until the fall or until the next season.
- Dividing the bush. An adult plant at the age of 5-6 years can be dug up and divided into several parts along the rhizome in order to immediately plant it in separate holes.
- Offspring. Rose hips produce abundant root shoots. Strong shoots up to 40 cm in height can be separated with a shovel and planted in a separate hole.
- By cuttings. At the end of June, green shoots are cut into 10 cm pieces, soaked in water, and then grown in a container until autumn and transferred to a permanent place.
Attention! The most effective and convenient method of propagation is dividing the bush. When grown from seed, double rose hips may not retain varietal characteristics.
Places of growth
In Russia alone, botanists have identified more than 8 species of this plant. Prickly, surprisingly elegant bushes are found almost throughout the country. The only exception is the Far North.
Rosehip is a fairly light-loving plant, so in nature it prefers open edges, the sides of forest paths and roads, river and lake banks, bush thickets and mountain slopes. Often its thickets, forming huge clumps, penetrate into populated areas. They are often adjacent to elderberries.
Types of roses often grown for decorative purposes are wrinkled rose hips (or rose rugosa), rose virginia. In Europe, musk has taken root and is well distributed. All of them are decorative rose hips. Their varieties are discussed below.
Some components
Although they say that it is becoming a thing of the past, and is being replaced by various nutritional gels, the chatterbox is still quite in demand. Then we straighten the roots and install the seedling so that the rhizome drops 5-8 cm below the soil surface. Next, you need to fill the roots with prepared soil, water it with water and sprinkle the planted seedling with sawdust or peat.
Specialized stores have a very large selection of seedlings of all popular types of rose hips. It is necessary to specify the distance between planted plants. If you are making a hedge, 50 centimeters between the holes will be quite enough. If the bush is planted in order to obtain abundant fruit harvests, there should be much more space around the bush. It should be added that vitamin varieties are planted only vegetatively (a method of asexual reproduction, when a new one is obtained from a multicellular part of the body of the parent) - by grafting, cuttings and layering.
Beneficial features
Preparations made from the fruits of rose hips rugosa have various pharmacological activities due to the presence of a complex of vitamins and bioflavonoids.
Their main beneficial properties:
- antisclerotic;
- hepatoprotective;
- hypoglycemic;
- anti-inflammatory;
- diuretic;
- regenerating;
- choleretic.
More information about the composition and beneficial properties of the plant’s berries can be found here.
Giver of love
The wild roses described here also include the white rose hip Rosa Alba. This is the same “culprit of passion” glorified in the legendary Lenkomov performance - a bush with simple white flowers.
It should be noted that it was about him, about the white rose hip with its magical ability to arouse love in the hearts of people, that was written in various medieval books with conspiracies.
There was such a mysterious person as Milokh Zaruzhny, who in his “works” wrote that if two people are scratched on the same white rose hip branch, then the mutual passionate feeling that flared up will survive centuries, because only this plant is capable of forever binding the hearts of even the most different of people. Love potions are prepared from it, which can evoke tenderness and passion.
And if you collect branches of white rose hips during the full moon in November, dry them and wear them as a talisman, then neither a vampire nor a sorcerer will be able to suck blood or energy out of a person. And a talisman made from a mixture of flowers or twigs of white rose hips, hawthorn berries, branches or pine cones becomes completely omnipotent. Rosehip with white flowers heals the heart, cleanses and restores the blood, and gives people love, peace and happiness.
