Charlie Albone is a landscape designer and television presenter. With his talent, good looks and cheeky personality Charlie is a natural presenter. Born in Hong Kong, Charlie moved to the UK when he was 12 years old. It was here 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 eight years ago. He fell in love with the country and decided to further his education by gaining a diploma in horticulture and landscape design.
While at college, Charlie started his own landscaping company Inspired Exteriors, which he now runs as a full time business. He creates gardens for everything from small inner city spaces to large stately homes. Passionate about the design of his surroundings, Charlie has now been designing and building gardens for almost ten years. Charlie loves to fi nd new materials to work with but always searches for sustainable products to add character to his designs. He loves the outdoors, for him it’s a pleasurable experience to create a space you want to spend time in and then return to.
In Selling Houses Australia, Charlie makes-over the gardens of the homes featured in the series so they look their best for sale. Charlie also lent his landscape expertise to The LifeStyle Channel’s series The Party Garden last year which he presented along with interior stylist Juliet Love.
Charlie also writes a monthly blog about gardening, as well as answering questions from LifeStyle viewers & website members. You can read his articles or ask a question by CLICKING HERE