Thurlestone barn conversion

Enclosing a front garden to create privacy- and a beautiful view from the house.

An empty front garden in full view of the house is being rebuilt and planted up to provide a peaceful outdoor seating area and year-round backdrop to this barn conversion in Thurlestone.

Local stone has been sourced to rebuild the damaged boundary walls & create a paved seating area, and the old buried farmyard surface broken up to create essential drainage. New borders are being planted with plenty of evergreen structure and summer colour and fresh turf laid on sand to increase root health on the slightly acidic soil.

High-quality planed and painted trellis will separate the garden from the driveway with pleached hornbeam trees screening the garden from the public areas behind the low wall. Japanese quince, winter box and ‘apple blossom’ camellias will gradually fill out to provide permanent woody structure as this new garden matures. Shade-tolerant underplanting includes hardy geraniums, ferns and bergenia with emergent clouds of airy thalictrum.