« Rosehips offering vibrant colour to the winter garden »

« Roses are perhaps Sissinghurst’s most iconic flower. For Vita Sackville-West, who made the garden with her husband Harold Nicolson, roses were the embodiment of the romantic, particularly the old forms and the species roses with their wild exuberance and brilliantly coloured rosehips. Most people grow roses for their flowers, but few spare a thought for the shiny, plump hips. All roses produce rosehips, but we don’t see them as often as we do the flowers because as gardeners we tend to deadhead the spent blooms. » Garden Illustrated