Cheap rosa rugosa seeds or plants??

[Cotham Marble]

Originally Posted by diggleken

they do bundles of 10 or 15 as a hedging plant, heeled together into soil, around that price too................
Cheers Ken

Excellent - shop local where possible !

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

I doubt that you'll find seeds for sale and I'm not too sure how succesful you would be with them .... but if you want to give it a whirl, go round and take some off of plants - it's the ideal time of year for it I would think?

There may be some of the native species available from the specialist suppliers but one would need to hunt around for them. Eglantine germinates readily after cold stratification, I guess the same would apply to R.rugosa; the draw back with seed or cuttings propogation is that it's two years before you get substanial plants. Bare root plants put in this winter will be in flower next summer and have produced major growth by this time next year.

CM

[bigdave60dog]

I have loads of seeds for free if you want or loads of suckers if you pay postage from Orkney where they grow like wildfire.
They would not be too good for security though "Rugosa" means rough rather than spiky. Best go for a flimsy type of fence which would collapse if anyone tried to climb over it and grow dogroses up it supported by stakes. Just as good for wildlife and much better as a deterrant for intruders.
Dave