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Charles Albone (born ) is an Australian landscape designer and television presenter known for co-hosting '' Selling Houses Australia'' (2008–20). He has also hosted other shows including ''The Party Garden'', ''Charlie and the Flower Show'' and ''Chelsea's Greatest Garden''. In 2020, Albone joined the cast of '' Better Homes and Gardens''.


Biography

Albone was born in
Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
, of English heritage, his father was a flight engineer and his mother was a flight attendant. At the age of twelve he moved to the
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where he attended
Sidcot School Sidcot School is a British co-educational independent school for boarding and day pupils, associated with the Religious Society of Friends. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England. The school is based in the Mendip Hills near the village of ...
in Somerset. Here he developed an interest in gardening and landscaping. A few years later he began working maintaining the grounds of an English country manor, with no formal qualifications, Albone learnt his trade on the job and worked for many UK landscaping companies before travelling to Australia on a working holiday. He decided to move to Australia and has been living there ever since. He completed a diploma of horticulture and landscape design and started his own landscaping company called Inspired Exteriors. Albone is married to stylist, interior designer and television host Juliet Love and they have two children. He now considers himself an Australian and is proud to be representing his adopted country. 'I like to think that I'm representing Australia and the rest of my team are Australian, my training, my life my family are all in Australia,' he said. 'I see myself as an Australian going over there rather than an Englishman going back'.


Television shows

While studying at
TAFE Technical and further education or simply TAFE (), is the common name in English-speaking countries in Oceania for vocational education, as a subset of tertiary education. TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational cours ...
, Albone received an email from the Australian Institute of Landscape Designers and Managers telling him he should try out for a place on a new TV show. Albone applied and was successful in being part of ''Selling Houses Australia''. In 2008, Albone made his TV debut on '' Selling Houses Australia'' on Foxtel's The LifeStyle Channel. In its twelfth season as of 2019, he has been a key member of the team; specialising in gardens and exterior make-overs for houses being sold. Albone has also hosted other LifeStyle Channel shows including ''The Party Garden'', ''Charlie and the Flower Show'' and more recently, ''Chelsea's Greatest Garden''. In 2015, Albone won a silver-gilt medal at the
Chelsea Flower Show The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the ''Great Spring Show'',Phil Clayton, ''The Great Temple Show'' in ''The Garden'' 2008, p.452, The Royal Horticultural Society is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural ...
. The creation of his entry was documented for a two-part television special, ''Charlie's Chelsea Garden'', which aired on The LifeStyle Channel. In 2016 Albone won a second silver-gilt medal on the Chelsea Flower Show in London making him the first Australian to compete two times at the show and winning it. In February 2020, Charlie Albone announced he would be leaving ''Selling Houses Australia'' and would be joining Seven Network’s '' Better Homes and Gardens'' as a gardener from 2020. In 2023, it was announced that Albone would be participating in the twentieth series of ''
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''. He was paired with Ruby Gherbaz.


References

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