When I was little my parents used to follow horses round in the car with a shovel so we could get free manure. That was a day out for us. And they wonder why I turned out peculiar.

. (Not very eco though because of the car).
Bumping this thread because I'm at the ordering plants stage and then after I get my fencing done next week I can dig over my borders and start planting! OMG!!! And I just had a quick question:
In the front I have two big holly bushes which I'm cutting right down to make a hedge and planting other hedging plants in between them to make the hedge hedge-shaped (I know we all probably want to move on emotionally from my hedge

, pls bear with me a bit longer!). The bit where I'm planting them is east facing and gets the sun in the morning but not the pm. I have clay soil (so people tell me). Before I get excited, can anyone think of a reason why I couldn't plant rose bushes to make a rose/ holly hedge? (You can get hedging varieties or so it says on the website). I can cope with some uncertainty but I don't want to doom them to instant death if there's something I've not considered!
(I have also discovered that a strange plant I get in the back garden is called mare's tail and it is Very Bad :-(. However my friend tells me she used to have Japanese Knotweed in a house in central Cambridge and this is much worse. So now I am nervous that it is slowly making its way towards my garden in some unexpected subterranean way, and will pop up like that plant that says Feed Me Seymore).