YES VESPER!
There are roses that will do it all, AAMOF.
Look into the Rugosa Roses, which tend to be great hip producers. Those hips are tasty, too.

Jeri

Does Rosa virginiana have showy hips?

Rosa x alba semi-plena (aka "the white rose of York") has a nice crop of hips once it's well established, although its leaves don't turn nice colors.

I think Vintage Gardens has one of the best explanatory websites, not to mention largest inventory, on roses. If you go to www.vintagegardens.com and click on roses, you will see a list of all the different classes of roses. They give a quick, clear and complete description of each class.

As Jeri said, Rugosas would be a great start, but be careful as many of them sucker wildly. Spinosimmias also have nice hips, and so do many of the species roses, such as rosa pomifera.

'Louise Odier' has nice hips, did you know? oval red-orange with persistent black sepals. It looks good with other plants that have something going on in the fall (foliage or flowers or fruits). You don't like 'Bonica's hips? Mine fruits well, with round orange hips that ripen on the bush while it continues to make those fresh pink blooms.
The once-blooming old roses of European origin (Alba, Gallica, Centifolia, Damask, many Mosses) are cleanly deciduous and some of them have good fall color. You might have problems with your size limits, since a lot of them get bigger than what you specify, but some of the Gallicas might work. I don't want to specify varieties since I don't know what does well in your zone. Some of the Hybrid Musks, 'Ballerina' and 'Penelope' for example, set good hips, but then the plants tend to get large. Some of the Rugosas also color well--'Sarah van Fleet' gets quite brilliant in our garden, and I think 'Thérèse Bugnet' does as well, though I don't know whether either of these fruits to speak of, though many Rugosas do. I second the suggestion to look into the Spinosissimas.
I find that rose fall color and hips add a lot of beauty and interest to the garden, as do also variety of foliage and even details of thorns and bark. Good luck!
Melissa

Rosa virginiana is an outstanding landscape rose in all four seasons. In winter you have the reddish brown canes, spring brings the beautiful shiny green foliage, summer the large pink flowers and fall the outstanding red hips and vibrant yellow foliage. It is one of the most reliable and beautiful of the native roses.

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It's also going to depend on where you are in Tennessee. Some roses hips that are great in colder climates have the hips mature way too fast in Tennessee and the hips are gone before fall.
When you say you've learned how to grow HTs....that means with lots of fetilizer and bi-weekly sprays, right? (Last two years, Tennessee was dry, much drier than most years so fungal problems were less. What I'm trying to say is what worked last year may not be enough this year....but that's why forums exist (in part) to try to understand some of the variables out there.

Do you enjoy suiting up and spraying and do you have some shaded areas to plant in? If so, there's one group of roses you might want to add.
No spray? That leads to other answers.

Are you closer to Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville or Tri Cities...it does make a difference.

Thanks for all the input - I have both Louise Odier and Bonica - but neither is very big yet - so perhaps they will make better hips as they get more estabished? I don't recall the Bonica hips being all that noticeable last year. I will definitely check out the Vintage website and look into some of the others mentioned.

Ann, I mostly use a fungicide drench on my HTs (no fertilizer or insecticide included). I also spray some mancozeb in the spring when it's very rainy and damp out. However, with the shrub roses, so far I've done one drench in the spring before they leaf out, lime-sulfur in the winter, and let it go after that. The BS doesn't seem to bother them much. I'm in Maryville, just south of Knoxville.

I actually have been lusting after Tuscany Superb and think I have a place to put it, if eastern exposure with afternoon shade is good for it, and if it isn't too disease prone. I have my shrub/polyantha/floribunda roses (all unidentified except Bonica) on a south-facing slope in a ring around a flowering cherry. Trying to keep them out far enough that shade won't become an issue. I have space for a couple more shrubs that don't get too big there. Plus I have 4 of one type that doesn't excite me me, so I could replace some or all of them. I would love to have some fall color and winter itnerest in that area.

Most of my roses were inherited with the house, and I've been learning over the past three years. Aside from the fungicide, I put on slow-release rose food in the spring and a couple applications of epsom salts during the growing season. Plus I'll water them with compost tea or seaweed when I'm doing other plants and the mood strikes. I don't have enough of them to be much of a burden right now, as far as the spraying and fertilizing goes, but I don't want to add too many more that aren't low maintenance.

Vesper,
You need to come visit my roses. I'm 18 miles northeast of downtown Knoxville so our growing conditions are nearly the same. You can also see mature sizes on species roses and some of the better hip setters. (For example, R. viginiana just started blooming here.)
Email me.

Ann