If they’re left on the plant, the rose hips will take center stage in autumn and provide a beautiful pop of color through the winter — or at least until the birds get them.

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Rose hips’ seedpods provide a pop of color in the fall and winter garden But less lauded are the orange and red hips, or seedpods, that form after the flowers fade. And that’s a shame.