The Time In Between Garden
Australia’s most loved garden guru from the Lifestyle Channel’s Selling Houses Australia, Charlie Albone, will build ‘The time in between,’ a garden symbolising the landscaper’s life.
15 May 2015 | 1 min read
The garden is designed to represent the three most important parts of Charlie’s life, a way of expressing his personal milestones since the designer’s father passed.
The first stage is a walk through romantic planting, which symbolises how amazing life can be. Charlie will use wide stepping stones for the path to ensure the space would be wide enough for him and his two sons, and his father to walk down. A water feature measuring four and a half metres wide is the main element of the second stage. It will fill to capacity and then empty its contents in approximately three seconds – a metaphor for life slipping away and how Charlie felt when he lost his father at just 17.
The journey ends with a fire pit representing Charlie’s wife, the flame and centre of his life. This flame is surrounded by sandstone columns, which symbolise family and the importance they hold in his life.
Charlie has chosen a range of Australian blooms to feature in his garden at the Chelsea Garden Flower Show. The Kangaroo Paw, Acacia cognata ‘Limelight’, Purple hop bush, tree ferns, Carrissa and Westringia are just some of the 80 different plants chosen.