Just like in a fairy tale: A romantic rose hedge structures the garden and creates glamorous corner points, just as dense planting offers reliable privacy. So you can sit behind your hedge, comfortably drink your Sunday coffee, enjoy the scent of roses when they are in bloom and don't have to worry about prying eyes from the street.
Wild roses are best suited as dog roses
Design options with rose hedges
With hedges of magnificently blooming roses, you can create particularly attractive garden borders.
Rose hedge within the garden
Low and medium-high hedges separate different areas within the garden. For a long-lasting bloom, you should choose taller bed roses that bloom more often. From the group of shrub roses, the moschata roses (e.g. 'Ballerina', 'Marie Jeanne' or 'Vanity'), which bloom again lushly in autumn, are particularly well suited. They can be easily pruned at a height of approx. 120 to 150 hold centimeters.
Rose hedge as privacy screen
High hedges that reach two meters and more provide an opaque privacy screen to the neighbors or form a natural transition to the open landscape. There they can calmly grow into each other and support each other. Branching roses (e.g. 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 for a hedge as deep as possible. Then there is a high probability that the graft will form its own roots and wild offshoots will no longer be formed. These are often very difficult to remove in the prickly tangle. In addition, the higher-growing shrub roses in particular need firmly anchored support rods to which you tie the main shoots. The optimal planting distance for rose hedges is about half of the expected final height - shrub roses that are estimated to be two meters high should ideally be planted at a distance of about one meter. By the way: Really opaque hedges only develop after about three to four years of growth. With the various wild roses and their hybrids, you have particularly little effort in terms of plants and care.
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Although two or more flower colors can be wonderfully combined in rose hedges, a hedge that consists of only one rose variety is particularly impressive. For example, the modern shrub rose 'Bantry Bay' piles up extremely lush mountains of flowers.