Rosa roxburghii f. normalis

[Hoy]

What amazing hips those are Stephen. Very exciting.
Hoy, do you have a seed list of things for sale? Rosa roxburghii is allowed into NZ ao I'd love to buy a few seeds.

Sorry, no seed list of things for sale
But you can have them free, just mail me your address.

[Hoy]

Some years ago, I saw a Rosa roxburghii in the Chelsea Physic Garden in London (picture). I hadn't seen yellow hips like this before  - do they turn to a chestnut colour when ripe (or is this something different)?

Stephen, my plants differ a little: The hips are coarser and the prickles somewhat fewer and larger but the leaves look more delicate. The colour doesn't turn quite the same either. However the last can be the different climate.

[Paul T]

Rosa roxburghii plena and Rosa roxburghii normalis at the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens where Tina has made a wonderful collection.

Pat,

How big is the plena version growing there?  Is it smaller than the normalis?  The flowers look like I recall at my friend's place.

[arillady]

Paul I would say that the plant was a metre or so high but wider. I can't remember how big the normalis form was but I feel it was larger.

[Paul T]

Pat,

That fits with the plena that I know at my friend's place up in the southern highlands.  Glad to hear that I'm thinking of the right thing.    I really want to find a source for it, although I should probably reconsider that as the garden is already full.    Rosa pimpernellifolia 'Irish Rich Marble' (I think that is the right name) is very much sulking in it's pot at present, barely doing much at all.  I just love it, but the garden where I got it from shows me just how well it can send stolons when it gets going.    Her clump of it was 2.5m wide by 1.6m tall and only stopped by the garden edge being kept in check.  I've not been game to put mine in the ground for that reason, and I've never sorted out a big pot for it.  At least the roxburghii plena would be more behaved, or at least it was being stoloniferous for my friend.  And we don't think his was grafted as far as he knows.

[fermi de Sousa]

Trond,
the seeds have arrived safely!
I'll forward the packs to Pat and Paul when I can.
cheers
fermi

[Hoy]

Trond,
the seeds have arrived safely!
I'll forward the packs to Pat and Paul when I can.
cheers
fermi

That's fine! Good luck to you all

[Paul T]

Fermi,

If they're to 3m tall there is no point me growing them, Fermi.  I just have no space. 

[fermi de Sousa]

That's fine, Paul, as Lesley wants some and it'll save Trond the cost of another international mailout!
Should I sow my share now or wait till autumn?
cheers
fermi

[arillady]

Fermi put the seed in the fridge and then plant out in autumn after the autumn rains begin in earnest is my policy.