Sweet briar
Rosa rubiginosa
In Dutch: Egelantier
ShrubsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- Up to 3 m
- Spread
- 1.5 to 2.5 m
- Full grown after
- 5 to 10 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Dry to moist, preferably with lime
- Water
- Little: copes with dry soil
- Maintenance
- Low: take out an old branch now and then
- Flowers
- June to August, pink
- For bees
- Yes: plenty of pollen, June to August
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No
- Pricks or stings
- Yes: prickles
- Price, young
- About €1.84 (buying 10) to €3.20 each, 60-100 cm, bare-root
- Price, grown
- Not for sale
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to November
- Flower
- June to August
- Fruit
- August to February