Rosa Glauca Hedging

Rosa glauca, the Red Leaved Rose, is an outstanding shrub rose that associates well with other shrubs such as Viburnum plicatum or even a small clematis. It is one of the more beautiful wild roses. Its stems and leaf stalks are purpley-red and the leaves themselves are steely grey, with the colouring of the stems seeping into the recesses of the veins. The simple flowers in summer are bright pink and the rose hips that follow are like little cherries. All this makes it a good rose for brightening up mixed country hedges up to about 3 metres high. For something completely different plant a single species hedge of Rosa glauca with an underplanting of spring flowering bulbs. It is suitable for almost any soil that isn't waterlogged and it will grow near the coast.

View our selection of thorny hedging roses or see our full range of hedging plants.

Rosa glauca hedge plants are only delivered bareroot, during winter (Nov-March).

Choosing a size:
When you are ordering Rosa glauca plants for a hedge, we generally recommend that you use plants that are graded at 40/60cms because they are cheaper than large plants, easier to handle and they will establish well in poor conditions.
Use the larger, 60/80cms tall plants if you want a taller hedge quickly.
All our hedge plants are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured).

Spacing a Rosa glauca hedge:

Plant Rosa glauca hedging at 3 plants per metre, 33cms apart.

History & uses of Red Leaf Rose:

Also listed as Rosa rubrifolia in older books. It has won an RHS Award of Garden Merit for being both attractive and easy to grow.

Growing Rosa glauca plants:
These wild roses will grow on most well drained but moist soils, including by the coast and on chalky soil. They are shade tolerant, but won't flower much if they don't get enough sun.

Prepare your site before planting:
Native hedge plants like Rosa glauca are very tough. The only essential preparation is to kill the weeds in a strip a metre wide along the planting site: improving the soil should not be necessary. If your soil is exceptionally poor and dry, then digging in some well rotted manure and/or compost is worthwhile.

Watch our video on how to plant a country hedge for full details.
Remember to water establishing plants during dry weather for at least a year after planting.

Hedge Planting Accessories:
Prepare your site for planting by killing the weeds and grass with Roundup weed killer.
You can buy a hedge planting pack with sheets of mulch fabric and pegs to hold it down.
If your soil quality is poor, we recommend using mycorrhizal "friendly fungi" on the roots of new trees and shrubs.
You can also improve your soil with bonemeal organic fertiliser and Growmore.

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Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £6.50 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

Misc	RHS AGM, Shrub, Wildlife Value
Shade	Full Sun, Partial Shade
Area	Coastal Areas, Exposed Windy Areas, Frost Pockets, Scotland & The North
Soil	Good, Well Drained, Acidic
Colour	Pink - Light
Type	Hedging, Shrub Rose
Also Good	Autumn Colour, Berries, Repeat Flowering
Flowering	Jun, Jul

	Buy 10 or more bareroot plants and save

SIZES	1-9	10-49	50-249	250-999	1000+
30/50 cm Bareroot	Out of Stock £2.34	Out of Stock£1.44	Out of Stock£1.20	Out of Stock£1.02	Out of Stock£0.78
40/60 cm	Out of Stock £2.34	Out of Stock£1.44	Out of Stock£1.20	Out of Stock£1.02	Out of Stock£0.66
60/80 cm	Out of Stock £2.76	Out of Stock£2.04	Out of Stock£1.56	Out of Stock£1.20	Out of Stock£0.96
	Prices include VAT

Due to unprecedented demand and safe working, we will not be able to deliver any orders placed THIS WEEK until after Monday, 27th April.

PLEASE BEAR WITH US AS WE MANAGE CURRENT ORDERS IN THESE EXTRAORDINARY TIMES.

Red Leaf Rose

Rosa glauca

Rootgrow

From £5.64

Snowdrops - In the Green

From £4.74

Hawthorn, Quickthorn

From £0.90

Spirals, Perforated

From £0.42

Rootgrow

From £5.64

Rosa Glauca Hedging

Spacing a Rosa glauca hedge:

History & uses of Red Leaf Rose:

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

Due to unprecedented demand and safe working, we will not be able to deliver any orders placed THIS WEEK until after Monday, 27th April.

PLEASE BEAR WITH US AS WE MANAGE CURRENT ORDERS IN THESE EXTRAORDINARY TIMES.

Red Leaf Rose

Rosa glauca

Rootgrow

From £5.64

Snowdrops - In the Green

From £4.74

Hawthorn, Quickthorn

From £0.90

Spirals, Perforated

From £0.42

Rootgrow

From £5.64

Rosa Glauca Hedging

Spacing a Rosa glauca hedge:

History & uses of Red Leaf Rose:

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?