• organic gardening,  Repost: drflower

    Rosehips from Raintree Nursery

    While you are busy planting those blueberry bushes…consider what to place in the planting bed with them.  How about a rose variety that produce rose hips? I did the same thing as I did with the blueberry bushes. I planted them and forgot about them…until they began to bloom!  Move over “knock out” roses! (they might be pretty but they don’t produce these beautiful rose hips!)  I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have beauty AND purpose in my planting beds!  The most Vitamin C you’ll find is in rose hips.  It was recommended to me several years ago to plant a certain kind of rose bush that produces…