If you are using 'dog rose' hips for their vitamin C content, it helps to stew them first and drain off the liquid because there are lots of little hairs around the seeds. Strain it through a fine mesh - a bit tighter than for flour. (Proceed as if you are going to make either rose hip syrup or jelly. About the same quantity of water.) You could probably use R rugosa hips also. They're far less fiddly to skin and clean! A peaceful job for by the fire in mid- to late autumn. Catch them while they're still fleshy and before they 'mummify' on the bush over winter.

hmm..you know Michele, I'm still trying to dry those dahlias. They do grow between 3-4 ft, they're a pinky lavendar, the bloom is 8 inches across but they only have a slight scent...just wondering..."scuffing foot"

Does Rosa virginiana produce hips worth using? Oh, and the York Rose, Rosa x alba semi-plena produces hips that could be used. Its white is tinged with peach-pink, so it looks more milky white than pure white, but it's lovely in bloom! Some people don't care for the colors of Rosa rugosa's later flowers against the color of the ripening hips. If you're sensitive to such things you'll have to consider whether you like the idea of scarlet/tomato red hips adorned with lavender-pink roses. If the idea of that color pair bothers you, go with Rosa rugosa alba. Then you'll have scarlet against pure white.

Thanks Jackie, I have been watching for hips at the local stores and nuseries on Drifts. I wanted to get a drift that produced hips. But they seem to dry before they set. No local store has peach, like yours. Guess peach is the one to get. I saw a pink with hips at one nursery. None of the other pink Drifts they had produced hips; they dried before they developed. Except for one pink. It was in a neglected basket. The plant looked almost dead, but it set hips, like in a last attempt to multiple. I asked the owner if I could have the hips; he said sure. Then I wondered if hips on the pinks were actually rare, or not. Or if hips on any Drift was rare. So I am glad to hear rose hips are set on Peach. Thanks for the info, Bob