Pre-Order Bareroot Roses For 2025/26 Winter Season
Wild roses are enormously tough, thorny and disease resistant, excellent in mixed hedges or as wildlife friendly shrubs, popular with small nesting birds.
They are ideal for planting in areas where they will get little attention after they establish in their first year. They will all grow in damp, shady places and dry, exposed sites with poor soil.
Rugosa varieties* are the best for dry soil in shade, useful for protecting a gloomy edge of a sandy garden from people and animals; we recommend Roseraie de l'Hay for its superior ornamental value.
To give a rose hedge a better upright structure, interplant it with Hawthorn.
Browse our other rose varieties.
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*Rugosa roses are not native and are a Schedule 9 plant: only for garden use. It's illegal to plant them out in the wild, like a country hedge, or cause them to grow in the wild by planting them along a boundary onto land where they can easily spread. This is not a concern in urban areas, nor in most suburbs.
Can Roses Make a Hedge?
Yes, wild roses are very suitable for secure hedging (they are an essential component in our native hedge mix), but to maintain a really neat shape they need plants like Hawthorn, Hazel, or Blackthorn to add rigidity that supports the roses' sprawling nature.
Although not native, the Ramanas roses (white and red) with their upright habit are great for hedges, and Roseraie De L'Hay is especially beautiful.
They can be clipped like any ordinary hedge, and it's wise to wear a helmet with face protection when cutting mature, overgrown ones that are as tall as you!
For ornamental garden rose hedges, you can use most tall shrub roses and larger varieties of hybrid tea - the thorny ones will be reasonably secure as well.
Some of the best garden roses for hedges are Rosa de Resht, Buff Beauty, Felicia, and Ferdinand Pichard.
Where Can I Grow a Rose Hedge?
Wild Rose Hedges
You can grow a wild rose hedge anywhere with at least some sun: they are as hardy and undemanding as the other plants in our native hedge collection.
Garden Rose Hedges
A garden rose hedge typically needs full sun, as the plants are jammed in close together, and good garden soil (or heavy clay) to support them.