“Help! The roses are growing over my window, again!”
That was a plea for help, last week, from one of my “irregular” Clients, I go there about once a month through the summer, and I always have to take my long snippy-snips, because the cottage has a lot of high-level roses which always need dead-heading.
This particular one:
... is only a Dog Rose, so the flowers are quite small, and they don't repeat-flower, meaning that only get one flush of flowers and that's it for the year.
However, they do produce rather lovely hips (or is it haws? I can never remember...) which are already forming, as you can see: and they persist right into mid winter, usually - unless the birds get them!
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