Charlie Albone: I Can't Go To The Hardware Store Now.

TV gardener Charlie Albone joined Clairsy & Lisa to talk about this weekend's Perth Garden Show. The guys talked about what we can expect at the show plus some gardening tips for big and small spaces and why Charlie now dreads going to Bunnings.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Perth Garden Show is on at McCallum Park in
Victoria Park from tomorrow until Sunday. For tickets and all
the information, you can check out Perthgardenshow dot com dot au.
Landscape designer and presenter on Channel seven's Better Homes and
Gardens Charlie Albon is one of the headliners and he's
with us now.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello, Hello, Hello, how are you guys?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Good?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I never thought i'd be referred to as a headliner.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hello. You are, absolutely and it's the super Bowl for
plant lovers.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
It is a super Bowl for plant lovers. Absolutely really
looking forward to coming over and seeing the gardeners of Perth.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
You are Taylor Swift, mate, So what are you going
to be doing whilst you're here? What's your sort of
role across the weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
So I will be at the show all weekend. I'm
going to be at the Rich Grow Knowledge Center. I'm
giving away all of my knowledge, so come and test me.
I'm doing talks twice a day. Yeah, just any questions
you've got coming ask I.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Mean people must have got you must go to a
dinner party and it'd be worse than a doctor when
people say I've got this month. Can you just developed
this plan and the leaf is going brown? I mean,
you must get people after you for unsolicited or solicited
advice regularly.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
So yeah, dinner parties are a bit of a nightmare
for that. But also even going to the hardware store.
I can't go to the hardware store now without at
least giving about an hour and a half of my
time because people come up and ask questions and don't
have to take them to show them what they need
to buy. And yeah, should be paid for that.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Mate.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Power of TV. They all know who you are. Do
you find that the knowledge of general knowledge of people? Now?
Of course we've got the Internet the rest of it,
but the general knowledge of people with so many shows
is much higher, and they know like a hell of
a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
People do know a lot, which is great. You know,
there was I don't know if you remember the time
of COVID, but we got into gardening. You know, people
really did get behind it and really saw the benefits
of it and increase their own personal knowledge, which is
a great thing. You know, when people are interested in gardening,
they're happy to tell each other about it and make

(02:06):
sure that everyone can do it. It's not like this
is something I can do, and I'm not going to
tell you how to do it. People are really into
it and really happy to share their knowledge, so I
love it.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
The weather is finally cooling down now, which means you
sort of feel more inspired to get out in the
garden because it's not so hot. But then again, I
often think, but what do you do at this time
of the year. You're meant to wait until spring to
do stuff. What can you do going into winter?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Now is the best time of year to be out
in the garden because, like you said, it's getting cooler,
but the soil is still nice and warm. So if
you're thinking of planting a hedge or planting out a garden,
now is the time.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
It will establish really well up into winter, and then
come spring it will just go gangbusters. So you can
get into the veggie patch too. You can get into
all the brassicas, the cauliflowers, the broccolis, all of that
stuff that needs to be planted now, so there is
plenty you can do.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
A lot of people downsizing as well, Charlie. Of course,
with what's going on with housing, a lot of people
getting smaller places. There's a lot of small guard's balconies
and courtyards, and I would imagine that's a whole new
business in itself.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Absolutely it is. You know, small space gardening is massive
at the moment and you don't actually need to have
any soil to be a gardener. You can grow in pots,
you can grow and grow bags. There's lots you can
do to get a bit of greenery in your life. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Sometimes having a smaller space is easier than a gigantic space.
You know, you can really bespoke it.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, absolutely, You start to think about every single tiny
detail and you can make something look really really special
if it's small, whereas if it's a big, big garden
it can be a little bit overwhelming in you often
forget the detail because of the size.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Bloody weeds as well. It drove be crazy, there is that.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Well, the place to be to get all the tips
for a garden, big or small is the Perth Garden Show.
It's McCallum Park in vic Park from tomorrow until Sunday. Charlie,
thanks for joining us.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
We'll see you there mynd pleasure. Yep, see you there, guys.