Grow potato rose as a hedge

What is a utility hedge?

A useful hedge is a hedge that not only looks beautiful but also has a use. For example, it can provide food for birds, attract butterflies and insects, or it can also bear fruit that is edible for humans, such as the elder, the aronia berry or the potato rose.

Incidentally, a hedge with potato roses has another “use”: thorns that prevent unauthorized intrusion, for example by intruders, or at least make it considerably more difficult. For this, however, this hedge must be really tight.

Plant the hedge

The whole point of a hedge is that it grows nice and tight. Therefore, you should not separate the individual potato roses too far apart in a hedge plants. We recommend a distance of about one meter to the neighboring plant. If you don't want the hedge to spread too far, put one Rhizome barrier.

Maintain the hedge

Caring for this hedge is very easy, because the potato rose is very robust and quite undemanding. She doesn't care much about drought, she just needs some water shortly after planting to help her get started. Fertilizer is not necessary at all, because the potato rose grows well in nutrient-poor soil.

Properly cut the hedge

A hedge with potato roses is about two meters high. If it is to remain lower, it must be cut accordingly. Otherwise an annual one is recommended Cut backto keep the shape of the hedge and to encourage the individual roses to bloom profusely.

The essentials in brief:

• for medium height and informal Hedges suitable
• has a break-in-resistant effect because of its thorns
• attracts insects and birds
• edible petals and rose hips
• Trimming difficult because of the thorns
• cut back once a year
• only water a little after planting
• do not fertilize