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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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Feature plants:
Feature plants are the real show stoppers of the garden and individually, or in small numbers, give punchy impact to a garden. A feature plant can draw the eye to an area or lead a person through a garden with ease. These sorts of plants also work well at the entrance of a house. Make sure you do not go over the top with feature plants as they then loose their impact. The best feature plant I have seen to date was in Hampton court gardens and it was a very mature aloe ferox in a pot. Feature plants are set off really well by pots as pots raise the plant that few extra feet that make sure their on the stage they deserve.
