Red Ramanas Japanese Rose Plants

Red Ramanas Japanese Rose Plants

Rugosa roses aren't 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.
Before they were added to the schedule in 2010, they were widely recommended for sandy and rocky coastal gardens where they perform almost as well as Gorse, but don't seed around as much.

This is the red-purple flowering Ramanas rose; you can also buy the white flowering variety.
Rugosas are good for seriously thorny hedges up to about 2 metres high.

View our selection of thorny hedging or see our full range of hedging roses.
For a more ornamental variety, have a look at Roseraie De L'Hay.

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

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's usually interplanted with the White Rugosa for a splash more colour. It'll make a tough hedge by itself, but it's best to mix in some hawthorn or blackthorn for structure, every third or fourth plant is good.

Spacing a Ramanas Rose hedge:

Plant your hedging at 3 plants per metre, 33cm apart.
You can also plant at 6 plants per metre in a staggered double row, with 33cm between each plant along the row and 40cm between the rows.

History & Trivia

These Japanese roses are also called Ramanas roses. In Japan, they're known as "Shore pears".