[Norton AntiSpam] question about a bush on our property

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yes those are rose hips

those are the roses you see alongside near the ocean..

same thing

rose hips are high in vit c....

 

 

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lynbes

herbal remedies

Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:57 PM

[Norton AntiSpam] {Herbal Remedies} question about a bush on our property

OK, I have a question for Doc or Valerie or Bryan or Kellie or Mary or whoever can answer this for me. We find a bush growing wild on our property that has leaves like a rose bush. We didn't find it until just now and the flowers have already died back so we don't know if the flowers looked like roses or not. Where the flowers were at, though, there are now red berries growing. They are oblong, and last night my husband tried eating one of them just to see how it tasted. There were little seeds in it. He took the seeds out and took the pulp out of the skin and ate just the pulp—so he didn't eat the seeds or the skin. He said that it tasted like one of those sweetened vitamin c pills that you find in the store. Have we stumbled on to rose hips????? If so, we are going to pick all of those berries off that bush and get them inside pronto!! This would be too good to pass up!It has now been a year since we moved into our home—and we are having so much fun this year! Hubby and I have found tons of apple trees and plum trees growing wild around the area that we live, no one is taking care of them which means they are all organic and we are the only ones interested in the fruit. Hubby just today has picked 160 pounds of apples for me to make into applesauce and can for the winter and he still has more he can get for me. The kids have picked enough plums to give 5 canner loads of delicious sweet red plums. And that doesn't count the purple plums that are not ready yet—I'll turn those in to jam when they are ready. And there is an elderberry bush loaded with elderberries! Hmmm—elderberry syrup for the cold season, elderberry jam………..my soul, the Lord is so merciful and His blessings are so great!Let me know what anyone thinks about our bush and the berries on it—if they need to be harvested we will need to get them in before we lose them.Becky