Rose to grow though a hedge?

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I garden a bit, but I know NOTHING about roses. We have a hip height hedge in the front, that I have a sudden fancy to pretty up a bit. The hedge itself s very well established and is berberis, a bit of cotoneaster horizontalis, and other things which I've forgotten. It's sort of translucent, nothing totally opaque like privet or beech. It's a bit municipal looking, tbh and want it to be pretty.

We're on clay, but i susepct the hedge bit is very stony and impoverished. It gets full sun. One side is the v quite road, then there is a low border on the house side.

It's a bit municipal looking, tbh and want it to be pretty. Could a rose grow through it and if so, which type for long lasting colour? What else might be nice? I don't want something crazily rampant or something needing cossetting.

Oops, pasting fail there....

I think you need a hedging rose. You will need to dig a trench away from the existing hedge. Put in plenty of good compost and rotted manure, Also feed the soil and keep it well watered and fed for a few years until the rose is established. The soil around hedges will be very impoverished and dry.

Would you consider planting lavender and rosemary instead? Although you will still have to,water to begin with, they will tolerate the poor soil. I would also plant climbing nasturtium seeds up the hedge. Great for butterflies.

I don't even know there was such thing as a hedging rose
Thanks! Off to Google...

I do already have quite a lot of rosemary and lavender already. And nasturtiums I did last year too, although I'd not put them along the hedge before, that's a nice idea.

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