Jamie Durie
Jamie Paul Durie OAM is an Australianborn international horticulturalist and landscape designer. He is founder and Director of Durie Design, a television host and producer, the author of nine bestselling books, an environmentalist and a humanitarian.
Durie was born in Manly, an oceanside suburb in Sydney, to a Sri Lankan mother and Australian father. He spent most of his early childhood in the mining town of Tom Price in north Western Australia. During the 1980s he was also working at night club Jamison Street in Sydney with the male review boys. A former model, Durie performed with the international cabaret group Manpower Australia in the early 1990s. It was during his tours with Manpower, and his creative roles within the production, that Durie began to develop his interest in garden design and architecture. He then returned to study design and horticulture in Sydney for four years at the age of 26. Durie has receivedInternational Design Awards since.
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