Most rose fanatics grow roses for their flowers, but the more in love with roses you fall, the more their ornamental hips become just as exciting and hotly anticipated as the flowers themselves.
Whilst many rose varieties fruit into lovely, curvy hips, many do not produce rosehips at all. For the most part, the best roses for rose hips are those with single or semi-double flowers and those that don’t repeat flower. But, as ever with gardening, that is not a hard and fast rule. Hips can be rounded, oval, elongated, pear, flask-shaped, red, orange, yellow, chocolate brown, and even, astonishingly, jet black.
