Rosa Rugosa Rubra Hedging

Rosa rugosa Rubra is the red-purple flowering Ramanas rose; you can also buy the white flowering variety here.
Rosa rugosa Rubra is good for hedges up to about 2 metres high.

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

Rosa rugosa Rubra hedge plants are only delivered bareroot, during winter (Nov-March).
All our hedge plants are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured).

Spacing a Rosa rugosa Rubra hedge:
Plant Rosa rugosa Rubra hedging at 3 plants per metre, 33cms apart.
You can also plant Rosa rugosa Rubra at 5 plants per metre in a staggered double row, with 33 cms between each plant along the row and 40cms between the rows.

General description of Rosa rugosa Rubra plants:
This red flowering Rugosa Rose is a wild Japanese variety, with densely packed, thorny stems that make a tough hedge. It has lush, healthy leaves, quite big, scented flowers and large, tomato & radish red rose hips that ripen by late summer.
It is usually interplanted with the White Rugosa rose for a splash more colour and while it will make a tough hedge by itself, a mixed hedge with hawthorn or blackthorn is easier to keep looking neat.

History & uses of White Rugosa Roses:
Japanese roses are also called Ramanas roses. In Japan, they are known as "Shore pears".

Growing Rosa rugosa Rubra plants:
These wild roses will grow on any well drained soils, including poorly fertile, sandy sites right by the coast and on chalky soil. They are suitable for clay soils in humid areas, but not for waterlogged places. Rose are generally shade tolerant, but won't flower much if they don't get enough sun.

Prepare your site before planting:
Native hedge plants like Rosa rugosa Rubra 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	Shrub, Wildlife Value
Area	Coastal Areas, Exposed Windy Areas
Soil	Acidic, Alkaline/Chalky
Colour	Lilac
Type	Hedging
Also Good	Repeat Flowering

	NUMBER OF PLANTS
SIZES	1-9	10-49	50-249	250-999	1000+
40/60 cm Bareroot	Plenty of Stock£1.79	Plenty of Stock£1.29	Plenty of Stock£0.99	Plenty of Stock£0.90	Plenty of Stock£0.80
60/80 cm Bareroot	Plenty of Stock£2.15	Plenty of Stock£1.27	Plenty of Stock£1.18	Plenty of Stock£1.05	Plenty of Stock£0.95

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Rosa Rugosa Rubra Hedging