Like in a fairy tale: A romantic rose hedge structures the garden and creates glamorous corner points, just as denser planting offers reliable privacy protection. So you can sit behind your hedge, comfortably drink your Sunday coffee, enjoy the scent of roses in bloom and don't have to worry about prying eyes from the street.
How do I plant a rose hedge?
You plant a rose hedge by planting the roses deep to avoid wild shoots, maintaining distances of about half the expected final height and attaching the main shoots to firmly anchored support rods. Opaque hedges emerge after approx. 3-4 years of growth.
Design options with rose hedges
You can create particularly attractive garden borders with hedges made of magnificently blooming roses.
Rose hedge within the garden
Low and medium height hedges separate different areas within the garden. For long-lasting blooms, you should choose taller bed roses that bloom more often. From the group of shrub roses, the moscha roses (e.g. 'Ballerina', 'Marie Jeanne' or 'Vanity') which bloom lushly in autumn are particularly suitable. They can be easily cut to a height of approx. 120 to 150 Hold centimeters.
Rose hedge as a privacy screen
High hedges that reach two meters or more provide opaque privacy from neighbors or form a natural transition to the open landscape. There they can grow into each other and support each other. Roses that grow runners (for example many wild roses or wild rose hybrids), which can disturb other areas of the garden, make the hedge dense and impenetrable.
Don't forget the support rod when planting
If you want to avoid wild shoots, you should plant the roses as deep as possible for a hedge. Then there is a high probability that the graft will form its own roots and that wild runners will no longer form. These are often very difficult to remove in the prickly tangle. In addition, the taller-growing shrub roses in particular require firmly anchored support rods (€8.00 on Amazon) to which you can tie the main shoots. The optimal planting distance for rose hedges is around half of the expected final height - so shrub roses estimated to be two meters high should ideally be planted at a distance of around one meter. By the way: Really opaque hedges only emerge after about three to four years of growth. With the various wild roses and their hybrids, you have to put in particularly little effort in terms of both plants and care.
Tip
Although two or more flower colors can be wonderfully combined in rose hedges, a hedge that only consists of one type of rose is particularly impressive. For example, the modern shrub rose 'Bantry Bay' piles up extremely lush mounds of flowers.
