China man sells his house, buys land, and collects seeds from China and overseas to turn wife’s childhood flower memory into world’s largest hollyhock garden

In an extraordinary display of love and affection, a Chinese husband did something unusual. Zhou Xiaolin turned a simple childhood memory shared by his wife into an extraordinary flower garden spanning about 80 hectares in Chengdu, Sichuan province, according to South China Morning Post. What started with his wife reminiscing about hollyhocks she saw growing up in Beijing eventually became a decades-long project.

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