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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.
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The placement of these areas relates directly to the style of garden you want. For example with the placement of an entertaining space: If you want a wilderness type of free flowing garden then you may want to wonder through the garden before reaching the entertaining space, thus connecting you with the wilder greener side of the garden. Or if a formal more regimented garden is more your style then placing the entertaining space off an existing structure such as the house you will get the effect of the lines of that structure continuing into the garden and this will add to its formality.
I have been designing and building gardens for almost ten years now and really enjoy seeing my imagination come to life in the various forms of materials and plants. A good landscape design can really alter the genius loci (mood) of a space; you can feel a special emotional connection with an area that will stay with you forever. For me it’s a pleasurable experience to create a space you will want to spend time in and then return to. In the upcoming articles will share some of my tips for you to use in your garden designs.
