The Eglantine rose, the hips of this rose are the ones used to make "tea" in Europe, with foliage the fragrance of apples. Rosa villosa — the Apple Rose — has a wonderful flavor and hips that ...

The hips can be used to make tea, or, in winter, gardeners can cut the canes and leave the hips attached to add to centerpieces or a bunch of boughs for the door.

That gives you enough quantity to make your own rose-hip jelly. It’s also enough to pick, prepare and dry to use later in winter to treat colds and flu with vitamin-rich medicinal rose-hip tea.

To prepare hips for tea, remove petal remnants and other plant debris, ... If eating or drinking rose hips isn’t your, um, cup of tea, you might use them in seasonal decorations.

I have always grown roses for their large red berrylike fruit known as the hip. It forms in the wake of a fertilized flower. During World War II, the British discovered that rose hips contain more ...

TEA AND JAMRich in vitamin C and high in antioxidants, calcium and magnesium, all rose hips are edible. However, most are too tart to eat without sweeteners, so they are used to make jams and ...