Jackie,
Thank you so much for the news that Dr. Wang is writing a book.
I priced the cost of attending his speach in NYC and just sort of chuckled to myself.

It sounds like it was a wonderful trip.

Jackie, thanks for the info. I'll have to try and plan a field trip there. Never heard of Quarryhill before.

Quarryhill's a wonderful place. Best in spring!!

But I sure wish I could have made it to that talk.

Jeri

Jeri - I am planning on going back in the Spring, but it was wonderful to see it in the Fall - all sorts of bushes and trees were covered with fruit/berries, and leaves were turning. There was one species rose I forget the name of (of course) that was absolutely laden - covered the entire bush - with HUGE (half the size of a medium sized lemon) bright yellow hips, which were covered with spikey hairs. We were told the sell them to eat in China. Can't wait to see the flowers that produced those hips!

Jackie

Spikey hairs and big and yellow suggests that its R. roxburghii (single form), as R.r. is used as a fruit in Japan.
Another possibility is R. laevigata, whose hips are also used as food/medicine.
Round hips would be roxburghii, sort of stretched out, narrower away from the stem - laevigata.
R. bracteata also makes spiny hips, but I've never heard of them being big enough for food (other than for critters)

Both are singles; roxburghii comes in at least three colors as a single (Phillip and Rix pix). Laevigata from what I've read is always white.

Wow, never heard of the place. Looks nice.

Here is a link that might be useful: QH BG photo gallery

jackie thansk so much for letting us know of this beautiful garden and hoovb, for posting the photo gallery where there are really great slide shows. I felt like I was in their garden for a few minutes.
I took the spring-summer slide show trip and was amazed to see a deep blue Tibetan clematis, followed by (slide 32 and 33) the R. roxburghii hips, as yellow and spikey as you said they were.

The spring-summer slide show only takes c. 2 minutes and it's well worth the time, even R. setipoda has a cameo.

Lux.

Thanks for the report! I was disappointed not to be able to go -- something important came up. I definitely need to make a trip there at some point. Do let us know when the book comes out, please.

Rosefolly

I loved Quarry Hill. The design of the garden is really beautful. The plants are exciting. I think fall is a great time there with so much leaf color and the rose hips were wonderful. We were so lucky to hear Dr. Wang speak. The research he is doing is fascinating. He was also charming and humorous. Also I saw many of my most loved rose friends.
I bought a little Katsura tree there. There were several growing in the garden. Besides being a lovely tree in the fall they exude a scent that smells like cooking strawberries.

How large does the Katsura tree become?

Jeri

I think it gets to be 40 feet.

Do you know if Dr. Wang might have given permission for his talk to be either recorded or transcribed? There might be enough interested persons willing to pay a reasonable fee for a copy to defray his travel expenses entirely.

It is my understanding (to my vast disappointment) that no permission was given.

!Que lastima!

Jeri

You are correct, Jeri. In fact, an announcement was made at the beginning of the talk specifically asking that no recording of any kind be made. There was an explanation - they said that much of the content/data presented in the talk was new information/discoveries, and that Dr. Wang was writing a book about it all. Of course, that made it even more fascinating to listen to!

Jackie

We can only hope that he has a publisher lined up and that he writes quickly.