Raspberry Hedge

Thanks for all the comments, just to let you know I do a strong cut back of the older canes every year, and I replant a number of the runners back into the hedge where the older canes thinned out. I’m probably lucky with regards watering as I live on a bog and my garden is raised up so I get good drainage and it tends to drain off towards the hedge where the raspberries grow.
The thistles are not creepers they are individual standalone ones big monsters with purple tops like the Scottish ones. I am just stamping them down for the moment as they all have tap roots that needs to be dug out.