Rose hedge from cuttings

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I have 2 rambling roses and 7 or 8 normal ones in my back garden. I’m thinking about having a rose hedge in my front garden, but I want to wait until the driveway is done, in a year or two so I wondered if I could do this from cuttings.

If I take cuttings this year from all of them, would they be big enough by then so I can use them? I d don’t mind if they will take a while to flower.Can I keep them all in pots until I’m ready to plant them?

Apart from the ramblers, I don’t know which varieties they are. Can you plant different varieties so close together or is it better to have the same type/are certain ones better suited for a hedge?

In my experience roses from cuttings are small for at least the first couple of years before they get properly established so it would take a while but perfectly achievable to grow from cuttings.

If you only grow roses you will have a very open structure which won't look much like a hedge. You can't put roses too close together or they won't thrive. Also roses just don't grow very densely. If you want something that looks more like a border it will be lovely. If you want the dense structure of a hedge, I'd grow your rambling roses through and over a more traditional hedge e.g. yew.

We have a low hedge of white Rosa rugosa which is very pretty - the most enormous red hips in autumn! It puts up lots of new growth from the bottom too which is nice as they can get a big leggy otherwise.

I don't know how successfully they could be propagated, but I bought the plants from our local nursery for £5 a pot which seemed very reasonable for something that gives such a lot of interest.

Most shrub roses make a pretty decent hedge, have a look on David Austin Roses, you can take cuttings, its a slow process, hydrangeas are much quicker to grow from cuttings, limelight is a good variety.

I don't know how successfully they could be propagated Rosa rugosa grows very easily from seed.

Good to know!

Rugosa roses will make a pretty good hedge but ornamental roses in the garden need a more open structure than that, and they will be slower to raise from cuttings too.

we had a Rosa Rugosa hedge in a house we bought.
It was beautiful, and great at security, the thorns are very affective!
beautiful flowers, lovely green foliage but then just bare sticks and hips in winter.

it also started growing up through the lawn. It sends out suckers, some quite deep underground, that we couldn’t see until they sent new growth up through the lawn. It’s put me off planting it again tbh.

I have a rose hedge in my front garden that grows really well. It's made up of ten Desdemona rose plants from David Austin. I've added a picture, that's it when it was relatively new.

I don't know how well a rose hedge will grow from cuttings, it depends on the type of rose it is and how strong it is on its own roots.
For instance, I don't think hybrid teas would make a very good hedge, it would be quite sparse. Floribundas vary, some can be bushy but other's are sparse like hybrid teas. Shrub roses can make a lovely hedge
Most roses are grafted and they might grow very well on the rootstock, but might be weak on their own roots.

Thanks all

That looks lovely @LookingGlassMilk !

Some of my roses do get a bit leggy, but the ramblers always look nice and full so I might look into @deplorabelle’s idea instead.

I’m trying to avoid spending £££ on planting up the front,I’ve realised what a slippery slope it is having just filled up new borders in the back garden😁

If it is a two year project I think it should work well. We moved at the beginning of last year and I took several cuttings from roses at the old house and they are doing quite well already. I think by the end of the season next year they will be really quite established. So if you don't need it for a couple of years I think it should work really well

I love roses, and want to plant a hedge too. I just have to make a bed and decide where it should go. Possibly just in front of a sunny deck.
I love yours @LookingGlassMilk, just the look I want to achieve.
Can I ask what you have planted in front. I was going to go for Lavender, but I think the tester of the small shrubs you have planted looks so striking.

Texture, not tester!

That's box, it's just not trimmed into a hedge shape yet! I have a small white lavender hedge on the other two edges