The red leaf rose is a great choice for hedging for several reasons not least its natural beauty with its pretty pink flowers and purple45grey leaves it stands alone as a beautiful specimen plant or adds a touch of colour to the mix when grown with other hedging plants it provides security forming a dense and thorny thicket or scrambling through other plants in a mixed hedgerow birds love it for its rose hips in autumn and what39s more rosa glauca is tough and easy to grow suppl