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Charlie Albone
26 year-old Charlie Albone was born in Hong Kong and moved to the UK when he was 12 years old. It was there that he developed a keen interest in landscapes and gardens. On leaving school, he landed a job maintaining the grounds of an English country manor. With no formal qualifications, he learnt on the job and worked for many UK landscaping companies before coming to Australia on a working holiday seven years ago. He fell in love with the country and decided to further his education by gaining a diploma in horticulture and landscape design, from Ryde TAFE in Sydney. While at college, Charlie started his own landscaping company “Inspired Exteriors”, which he now runs as a full time business. His main client base is in Sydney’s inner West, where he creates stylish city gardens. At the other end of the spectrum, Charlie has worked on country gardens in the Southern Highlands and even France. He continues to keep links with the UK horticulture industry, by slotting in jobs when he visits family back home. In the future, Charlie would like to work on more conceptual gardens using new materials. He also has a keen interest in sustainability. In Selling Houses Australia, Charlie makes over all of the gardens in the homes featured in the series ready for sale. This is his first television series.
For any landscape design work you may be interested in hiring Charlie to undertake, you can contact him directly via his website www.inspiredexteriors.com.au
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Hedging:
Hedges can be found in almost every Australian garden and are a great green boundary in the garden; they can be used for screening out ugly fences, intruding neighbors and defining boundary lines. Low hedges define garden bed borders and help frame the plants that make up the center of the bed. Not all hedges have to be formal; do not automatically think of a formal style when you think of hedges. A loose hedge can create the feeling of segregation without installing the formal theme. Aerial hedges or pleaching can have a great effect but work best in larger spaces where the open aspect of the pleach can be exploited. My favorite native hedge is the Acmena (lilly pilly) as it grows quickly, has great dense green foliage. There are now even cyillid free varieties. For low formal hedging it’s hard to go past buxus with its compact growth and hardy when established nature. Another great hedging genus is the viburnums, mostly quick growing with a huge variety of flowering shrubs, these can be formal or loose and can be used almost anywhere.
