I have written before about Mr Doncaster's rose with its lovely flush of pink flowers early in the spring. Well now it is in hip - and beautiful hips they are too - like bright shiny chilli peppers hanging on the bush. Some people are loath to give these nearly wild shrubs room in the garden as they don't flower all summer long. But would we expect rhododendrons to flower all summer long? Yet people are all too keen to give them houseroom, and they don't even have bright red hips.
Rosa "Doncasteri" gives bright flowers in abundance in June and graces us with elegant arching sprays of foliage in July. By August the hips are already ripening and delighting us again.
A very well worthwhile rose!
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