Description

Our provincial flower and well deserved. This rose has 5 petaled pinkish flowers with a lovely scent for potpourri. Use to decorate cakes, as a mild tasting, pretty garnish for salads or desserts, or try the hips. These reddish globular to oblong seeded fruits are full of vitamin C and can be used to make jelly, gummies or tea for an immune system boost. Be sure to use them as fresh as possible as the Vitamin C deteriorates quickly in storage. The shrubs are armed with prickles all along the stems so this plant may be a good choice as a natural barrier.