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Hedge Roses
Whenever you plant roses en masse, choose your colors carefully and think hard about how they will combine with other plants in your yard. Standing alone, a row of pink roses can be boring and monotonous, but planted behind a perennial border they become the perfect backdrop for other flowering plants. A solitary hedge of white roses across the back of a yard can be a glaring intrusion, but the same hedge caught as just glimpses through other plants in the landscape adds depth and a sense of mystery of what lies beyond. You can often create something truly remarkable by using another plant in front or behind a hedge of roses. A double hedge with roses in front, and a taller evergreen like Texas privet behind, sets off any color rose. Planting lavender, ornamental grass or other textural plant in front of a hedge of roses serves to cover up the roses' often unsightly base and provides beautiful contrast. When using roses as hedges, less is sometimes more. A short hedge of five to seven plants around a small patio, sitting area or fountain turns the area into a colorful focal point. But if the situation calls for it, don't be afraid to be bold. A long hedge of roses surrounding a vegetable garden will let everyone know that it is a special place. Rose hedges can also be functional, hiding fences or screening unsightly views like compost piles. And with their thorns, rose hedges can be formidable barriers.
Hedge Roses are one of the easiest to get startings from. They can take root from a cutting in as little as 2 to 3 weeks. Hedge Roses can be grown anywhere as far north as Maine and into zone 10 Southern Florida. From zones 7-10 hedge roses can be slightly invasive so make sure you have the time and energy to keep up with them, also do research on the type and color you want. Some are much more invasive than others.
Most hedge roses are only planted 2 feet apart and do especially well beside an old fence or something unsightly in your yard that can't be moved, but you don't want showing.
Not all hedge roses are the same, the "pink cushion" only get 2 to 3 feet tall and can be used as borders around other garden plants or flower beds.
Other types such as "Red Robin" get massively large and can be used to grow over privacy fences and can actually be used as a fence against animals such as deer.
Whenever you plant roses en masse, choose your colors carefully and think hard about how they will combine with other plants in your yard. Standing alone, a row of pink roses can be boring and monotonous, but planted behind a perennial border they become the perfect backdrop for other flowering plants. A solitary hedge of white roses across the back of a yard can be a glaring intrusion, but the same hedge caught as just glimpses through other plants in the landscape adds depth and a sense of mystery of what lies beyond. You can often create something truly remarkable by using another plant in front or behind a hedge of roses. A double hedge with roses in front, and a taller evergreen like Texas privet behind, sets off any color rose. Planting lavender, ornamental grass or other textural plant in front of a hedge of roses serves to cover up the roses' often unsightly base and provides beautiful contrast. When using roses as hedges, less is sometimes more. A short hedge of five to seven plants around a small patio, sitting area or fountain turns the area into a colorful focal point. But if the situation calls for it, don't be afraid to be bold. A long hedge of roses surrounding a vegetable garden will let everyone know that it is a special place. Rose hedges can also be functional, hiding fences or screening unsightly views like compost piles. And with their thorns, rose hedges can be formidable barriers.
Hedge Roses are one of the easiest to get startings from. They can take root from a cutting in as little as 2 to 3 weeks. Hedge Roses can be grown anywhere as far north as Maine and into zone 10 Southern Florida. From zones 7-10 hedge roses can be slightly invasive so make sure you have the time and energy to keep up with them, also do research on the type and color you want. Some are much more invasive than others.
Most hedge roses are only planted 2 feet apart and do especially well beside an old fence or something unsightly in your yard that can't be moved, but you don't want showing.
Not all hedge roses are the same, the "pink cushion" only get 2 to 3 feet tall and can be used as borders around other garden plants or flower beds.
Other types such as "Red Robin" get massively large and can be used to grow over privacy fences and can actually be used as a fence against animals such as deer.
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