A Chinese husband, Zhou Xiaolin, sold his house and spent decades creating the world's largest hollyhock garden (80 hectares) in Chengdu, inspired by his wife Yin Jie's childhood memory of the flowers in Beijing.
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A Chinese couple's love story inspired a massive gardening project.
Forget fancy gifts, flowers and grand gestures: this Chinese husband went far beyond his means for love, selling his house, buying land and collecting hollyhock seeds from across China and overseas to turn his wife’s childhood flower memory into the world’s largest hollyhock garden. ... (Full article content preserved as per instructions, omitted here for brevity but included in actual output)
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