Ridleys Cheer
Antony Young
Ridleys Cheer
Mountain Bower
Chippenham
Wiltshire
United Kingdom
SN14 7AJ
Tel. 01225 891204
SUMMARY OF MAJOR PROJECTS
TURLEIGH MANOR, WILTSHIRE (1990-1992)
Restoration of 5 acre mature garden of a fine Queen Anne house, including creation of informal woodland garden and double herbaceous borders within walled garden.
OZLEWORTH PARK, GLOUCESTERSHIRE (1992-1995)
Garden completely redesigned over a period of three and a half years, including balustraded parterre, 1/4 mile of ha-ha wall, lime avenues, shrub rose garden containing 375 roses, 8 arches and 8 pillars, all edged in dwarf box. Sunken garden with lily ponds, circular herb garden,water garden and woodland planting.
Ozleworth Park. The shrub rose garden
LUCKNAM PARK, WILTSHIRE (1995-1997)
Design and construction of a number of new elements within an existing mature garden. Rose garden with central lily pond, pleached hornbeam hedges, tropical garden, herb garden with box edging. Front parterre.
CHURCHILL FAMILY GRAVES AT BLADON, OXFORDSHIRE (1997 - 1998)
Formal box planting on and around a number of the family graves surrounding that of Sir Winston Churchill.
CHATEAU DE BAGATELLE, ABBEVILLE, FRANCE. (1998 - 2000)
Complete restoration and re-creation of a garden in an advanced state of decay. New white rose garden, restored parterres, redesigned central terrace and parterre. 60m x 4m canal with steps leading to similar smaller pool beyond. Groups of acer palmatum, magnolia and ilex in former "jardin anglais". Woodland glade plantings.
Chateau de Bagatelle, Abbeville, Somme, France
CHATEAU DE VILLETTE, AUTUN, BOURGOGNE, FRANCE. (2000 - 2004 ) Part restoration but largely a completely new garden including avenues of Oriental plane and Lime, a shrub rose garden enclosed with pleached hornbeam hedges, an avenue of rose arches, courtyard plantings and replanting of parkland with specimen trees.
CHATEAU DE JANVILLE, HAUTE NORMANDIE, FRANCE (2003 - )
A major garden restoration, including a totally new formal garden, within the old walled garden, box parterres and replanting of shrubs and specimen trees.
PITTERS FARM, WILTSHIRE (2007- 2009)
A part reconstruction of an established garden, including realigning the drive and converting the former main parking area to a formal walled garden with central circular lily pond.
Pitters Farm
NOTTON LODGE, WILTSHIRE (2009-2010)
Creation of a formal water garden, as an additional feature of an established garden.
Notton Lodge
ST CATHERINES, BATH (2011-2012)
Total reconstruction of an old garden, including dry stone terrace walls, with flights of stone steps, to create a garden on three different levels, from formal lawns and flower borders to wildflower meadow below. Rose and Lavender garden.
St Catherines, Bath
Background Note
Antony Young was educated in England at Radley and St John’s College, Oxford where he took an MA in geography. He has all his life been keenly interested in gardening and the creation of gardens. After a career in industry he decided to turn to what had always been his principal outside interest. He received his first garden design commission in 1990 and since then has undertaken a succession of extremely interesting projects, mainly in large, privately owned gardens.