Best for the wildlife garden

Any single rose will attrac attract bees and insects and thes these include modern roses suc such as the fragrant, white ‘Kew Gardens’, which flowers all summer. Natural species roses, which produce the best hips for birds, have a short flowering season but many hybrid musk roses roses, which flower until autumn, have small, orange hips that feed bir birds in winter. If you’ve lots o of room, the big rambling roses such as ‘Kiftsgate’ produce masses of hips after clouds of white flowers, and the thorny stems provide nesting sites, too. If space is limited and hips are you your main concern, Rosa

rugosa has large, showy, fragrant flowers and large, succulent hips.