Pimpinellfolias. Early Flowering and Prickly
Native to Europe, this is a tough little bunch of roses. They are prickly, dense and compact with many tiny serrated leaflets. The flowers are small, except in the case of one or two hybrids, appearing in abundance early summer. The display is not long lived, usually only for about three weeks but most of them produce wonderful, rotund, mahogany coloured hips in the autumn. They will grow almost anywhere, in poor soil and shade and will cope with most winters. Their tidy growth and density places them as ideal candidates for the shorter boundary hedge where sharp thorns will provide a good deterant.
