Cottage Garden
Mine come from an old rose tree that is growing on my allotment which I inherited. It was enormous, growing up to 8ft, we pruned it right back to stumps in 2005,and didn't see any flowers at all last year but this year it's been beautiful, pink, slightly fragrant single pinky white flowers, goodness knows what variety it is. It's covered in rose hips now, I've left lots for the birds, could have had at least another 1lb.
It's in a bit of a wasted space, about 25ft x 12ft, besides the rose tree there is a rowan and two sumach, so I've made a flower border out of it all there's no way I could get the trees out and the shade is so welcome in the height of summer, still it's a good place to have herbs and I grow alpine strawberries there for the hens and I can indulge my passion for lilac and bluebells too.
Perhaps you need to find a big rose bush, prune it within an inch of its life and stand back!
And thanks for the recipe, think I'll give that a go, would imagine it would end up a beautiful colour.
best wishes
Sue