White Ramanus Rose 40/60cm Bare Root (Rosa rugosa 'Alba')

Rosa Rugosa Alba Wild White Bareroot Hedging 40-60cm

Rosa Rugosa Alba is quick growing, flowering all summer, white scented flowers, with huge red rosehips. It has a single, white fragrant repeating bloom with huge ornamental red rose hips in autumn.  It is tough, disease and wind resistant.  This wild rose is an excellent seaside plant as it tolerates exposed, and salt conditions. Rosa Rugosa is a vigorous growing plant and one of the most versatile roses of all as it is happy almost anywhere from the South of England to the Islands of Scotland.

Tiny thorns on the rose make it a natural impenetrable security barrier hedging plant.  It will be a good supply of food for wildlife and provide nesting shelter as well. 

Common Name: White Romanus Rose, Rosa Alba

Genus: Rosa   

Species:  alba

Type:  Bareroot

 Size:  40/60cm

Rate of Growth:  Average about 20-40cm per year

Flower:  Single large white, lightly scented

Fruit:  Large, round bright red rose hips

Planting Location:  Full sun, partial shade to full shade.  Exposed and Coastal Sited

Soil Type:  Tolerates almost all soil types including chalk and clay soils, well-draining but moist. 

pH:  neutral, alkaline, acid

Fertilise:   Rootgrow upon initial planting and thereafter

Planting Distance: 3 per metre single row for hedging 

Hardiness:  Hardy

Height: 1-1.5   metres

Spread: 1-1.5 metres

***Scot Plants Direct can only supply bareroot plants when they are dormant during the winter months but you can PRE ORDER now to ensure an early delivery date at the start of the season in November to March annually.