What are these weird things on my roses? (pics included)

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I bought 4 Gertrude Jekyll roses from David Austin a couple of years back. First year they were wonderful, second year they had a severe aphid infestation and pretty bad black spot.

I am keen to keep them as healthy as possible this year, and while I was inspecting the rose new growth earlier I found a few of these weird wrinkled growths - any idea what they are and whether they're something to worry about? The aphids are unfortunately back already, and have been sprayed with Rose Clear today which should help but if this is another problem I would like to know!

these are the hips or fruit

I've not had much luck with David Austin roses...the blooms have shriveled and died before fully flowering, but those do look a bit like old hips.

Washing up liquid in water spray is better than anything else I've tried for aphids!

Rose hips from last summer. Prune them back to a healthy outward facing shoot.

As @PerseverancePays says above, then give them feed and a good water.
Healthy plants survive bug attacks better..

I opened this thread thinking it would be rose galls. But these are just rosehips 🤣 Collected in WW2 for their vitamin C content when no lemons could be imported.

Prune back to the first set of leaves with 5 leaves.

There’s no need to rose clear.
Honestly, roses are so, so tough, leave everything alone and within a season or two ladybirds, blue tits etc will eat the aphids for you.
There’s no need to go poisoning everything!

Rosehips that the birds have missed!

You live and learn, now, as previous poster says cut back to first set of leaves (one with not three but five leaflets)

Lovely, some amazing tips on here and thanks for confirming they are old rosehips :) I will do some cutting back and much prefer washing up liquid in water vs the harsh chemicals for aphids, thanks all.

You can buy ladybirds and ladybird larvae online too. I only learned what the larvae looked like last year Every time I spotted one in the garden I picked it up on some card and moved it over to my roses. After about a week the aphids were gone.