So large

Single roses I think have a beautiful simplicity. Love those red hips.

Beautiful blog, Klahanie! Thank you for sharing your info and those roses - so pretty. The second pic of the climbing rose - so clear and very charming indeed!
Last pic - a darling little bird!

Gorgeous close up pics of the roses & the little bird. That rambler has certainly taken off!

Wonderful to have roses of that age, Klahanie, and the space to let them grow and spread. I expect these more simple plants suit your space well. They are my faves too. And I envy you the little hummingbird whatever its colour!

Wild Rose and Dog Rose is what I know that as, we used to have a lot of those around here until the farmers dug out the hedges, they learnt their lesson and reintroduced the hedgerows but sadly the roses weren't amongst the mixtures, there are some along what we call the Dead Line, an old railway track we sometimes walk our dogs along so not all are lost....
I am with everyone and agree they are pretty and love your little bird.....

Lovely to see the rose scrambling up the trees! 👍😀 Do you make jam with the hips? They are supposed to be very rich in vitamin C.

Klahanie during the shortages in WW2 children were paid a tiny amount to gather rose hips from which vit c was extracted. We used to be given rosehip syrup as kids, for the vit.c. You have a very impressive display - they really seem to love it where you are!
Gosh Balcony I never heard of anyone dong htat - we used to warned off because of the tiny hairs in the juice that need straining out before m!consumption! Did your Mum hang up the cooked berries in a muslin bag to drip out the juice?

Sorry Stera, I think there has been a little misunderstanding here! I didn't say anything about my mum making jam from rose hips! Klahanie was replying to me when she mentioned HER mother used to make jam from them!

I don't ever remember my mum having done that - there wouldn't have been enough roses around our little corner of London when I was a boy to do that! I have never tried rose hip jam either.

Oops, sorry - hope you both see this! Did I say kids collected them for jam? I think they were collected at some central point and made into rose hip syrup. I was very young at the time, too small to be involved with any collection. I do remember that if Mum did use any for anything they had to be strained through a muslin bag like you do for bramble jelly to strain out tiny irritating hairs before you could use them. Rose hip syrup is very high in vit C and was recommended for children during wartime.
Not heard of rose hip tea - will look out for it!

Balc, it wasn't garden hips they collected but wild ones. The folk we knew wouldn't have garden space for a lot of roses!