Dog rose
Rosa canina
ShrubSecondary
Production
A tough hedgerow rose that yields vitamin-rich hips and rich pollinator forage as a thorny shrub-layer worker — self-spreading, so give it room.
Tolerances & traits
- Strata
- Shrub
- Lifecycle
- Secondary
- Soil preference
- Loam, Sandy
- Soil pH range
- 5.5 – 7.5
- Min. temperature
- -30°C
- Min. rainfall
- 450 mm/year
- Wind tolerance
- High
- Frost tolerance
- High
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Irrigation needed
- Low
How to manage it
Wild rose for hips, hedging and wildlife; hard prune in winter to rejuvenate and reduce disease.
Watch out for
Thorny and suckers, spreading into hedgerows by seed; birds also disperse hips widely.
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