Choosing plants for your garden: rosehip varieties

Many amateur gardeners believe that a garden should be not only beautiful, but also useful, therefore, along with decorative and beautifully flowering bushes and trees, they are often planted with those whose fruits can benefit health or appearance. The indisputable leader in this matter can be safely called the rosehip, the fruits of which are especially priced in winter.

Rosehip varieties will delight not only amateur gardeners, but also those. who have never dealt with this plant, because they differ not only in the appearance of the fruits, but also in the growth of trees, flowering, the way of care, and some even in the shape of the leaf.

The most popular varieties of rose hips that are planted in personal plots:

  • Vitamin VNIVI is considered a mid-season variety with large berries of sweet and sour taste without pubescence. From one bush, you can collect about 2.5 kg of berries;
  • Russian 2 is a mid-season ripening variety, the bush reaches a height of 2.5 meters, the fruits are small and can be dried for use in winter;
  • Vorontsovskiy 1 - also of a medium ripening period, cold-tolerant, with small fruits that cover the bush with a single placement rather thickly. Also used for drying;
  • Jubilee - one of the most productive varieties with large fruits that can be used in different ways, the bush is winter-hardy and mid-season;
  • Globus is a medium-sized bush on which large berries ripen;
  • Crimson is a winter-hardy dog ​​rose, which is famous for its large non-pubescent fruits.

Rosehip is valuable due to the rich content of vitamin C in its fruits. But not every of the aforementioned varieties is rich in this vitamin. Among the most useful should be noted Vitamin VNIVI, Crimson and Globus, in which the fruits are rich in vitamin C at 2400 mg / 100 g and above.

Category:Shrubs | Rosehip
Kasyunya's avatar

I love rosehip tea very much. My grandmother also brewed it - how fragrant and delicious it is! Now my children drink it with pleasure.